sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified

# Disable "ssh hostname sudo <cmd>", because it will show the password in clear text. 
# You have to run "ssh -t hostname sudo <cmd>".
#
# Defaults    requiretty

I'm trying to run the following command:

ssh user@box.example.com sudo command1 /path/to/file

But, an error is displayed follows:

sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

How do I fix this problem on Linux or Unix based systems?

This is done in Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, many other Linux distribution, and Unix-like systems for security concern as it will show the password in clear text format.

Fixing: Sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

You have to run your ssh command as follows to avoid this error:

 
ssh -t hostname sudo command
ssh -t user@hostname sudo command
ssh -t user@box.example.com sudo command1 /path/to/file
 

The -t option force pseudo-tty allocation. This can be used to execute arbitrary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be very useful, e.g., when implementing menu services. Multiple -t options force tty allocation, even if ssh has no local tty.

The requiretty option in sudoers file

The requiretty if set in sudo config file sudoers, sudo will only run when the user is logged in to a real tty. When this flag is set, sudo can only be run from a login session and not via other means such as cron, shell/perl/python or cgi-bin scripts. This flag is set on many distores by default. Edit /etc/sudoers, file, enter:
# visudo
Find line that read as follows:

Defaults    requiretty

Either comment it out the line or delete the line:

#Defaults    requiretty

Save and close the file.

How Do I run command without using the -t option?

You can use the su command instead of the sudo command as follows:

 
su --session-command="/path/to/command1 arg1 arg2"
 

OR

 
ssh user@server1.nixcraft.in su --session-command="/path/to/command1 arg1 arg2"
 

You can run /scripts/job5143 as vivek user using the same syntax:

 
ssh user@server1.nixcraft.in su --session-command="/scripts/job1 /nas" vivek