Jenkins fails: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from standard input

Question

While Jenkins building, it gives an error on console output like:

sudo: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass helper

How can i fix this situation?

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There is this command in Execute Shell in configure:

sudo pnpm run build
sudo kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i:3000)

Output:

16:42:03  > git config core.sparsecheckout # timeout=10
16:42:03  > git checkout -f 9998780d6a154bab01b4c010616f25a6f018d80c # timeout=10
16:42:03 Commit message: "fix swr"
16:42:03  > git rev-list --no-walk 9998780d6a154bab01b4c010616f25a6f018d80c # timeout=10
16:42:04 [ProjectReact] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/jenkins14253074063433648143.sh
16:42:04 + sudo pnpm run build
16:42:04 sudo: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass helper
16:42:04 Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
16:42:04 Finished: FAILURE

If i dont use "sudo" command at beginning of the pnpm command but i needed to use it for kill port and start again

Answer 1

I found a solution for the usage of sudo command in jenkins execute shell.

sudo su    
nano /etc/sudoers

add following line under the comment #User privilege specification.

jenkins ALL= NOPASSWD: ALL

After this, I could use "sudo" command in jenkins.

Answer 2

Remove sudo from your script and let pnpm run without it -- it doesn't require root permissions anyway.

sudo is meant to be used in the terminal by a human user, and by default it requires the user's password to run commands with elevated privileges.

When running jobs on Jenkins you shouldn't be using sudo.