I researched this question and all answers suggest visudo to add: Defaults:user !requiretty
It does not work!
I have two Linux boxes (RedHat). I have a Java class which uses ProcessBuilder/Process to execute commands. The class runs under a system account. On both boxes, I run
su other-user -c 'some-command'
and provide the password for other-user in an input stream to the Process object.
On one box, the command succeeds and on the other I get the error above. The sudoers files on both machines did not have exclusions for requiretty ('Defaults requiretty' is set on both files). I tried adding the exclusion as suggested by the answers I found. I tried both the system user running the process and 'other-user'...
Does not work.
What else can be the issue? Do I need to restart the system after adding the requiretty exceptoin(s)?
sudoers is for sudo rather than su so you should use sudo.
According to su manual:
-c, --command COMMANDSpecify a command that will be invoked by the shell using its
-c.The executed command will have no controlling terminal. This option cannot be used to execute interactive programs which need a controlling TTY.