Terminal is required to read the password

[MAN5]

Ubuntu 22.04.3
Hestia v1.8.10

Email notifications :

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

sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-update-sys-queue restart
sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-update-sys-queue backup
sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-update-sys-rrd
sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-update-sys-queue restart
sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-update-sys-queue restart

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Same issue like : Sudo /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp -U

I have not done any changes in my server. But today, suddenly keep recving CRON emails on every minute. Only for HESTIA scheduled crons having this issue. Any help plz?

[sahsanu]

Show the outpt of these commands:

grep '^admin' /etc/passwd
cat /etc/sudoers.d/admin
v-list-cron-jobs admin
crontab -l -u admin

@MAN5

Same issue like : Sudo /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp -U

What user is running above command and what is the entire ouput?

[MAN5]

Hi, plz find attached…

[sahsanu]

That looks ok, I don’t think the mail you received comes from admin cron jobs.

Just in case, show the output of this:

grep nologin /etc/shells

Show the output of all cron jobs of your users:

for i in $(v-list-users plain | cut -f1); do echo "Cronjob for user $i"; v-list-cron-jobs $i;echo; done

Also, in the subject of mail you have received, you should see the command that causes the error.

[eris]

v-change-user-shell admin bash
su admin 
sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-list-users

If that doesn’t work there is something wrong with your sudo configuration some where. Did you change anything by adding a new user to the sudo?

[MAN5]

@eris

sudo /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-list-users

@eris Plz find my attached… I have not change anything related to SUDO users…

[eris]

So the sudo command under the admin user is working fine

/usr/local/hestia/bin/v-list-cron-jobs other user

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@sahsanu

grep nologin /etc/shells

Hi…
----- v-list-users: command not found

[MAN5]

Seems this works. Now no more emails. will monitor this. Tq
@eris & @sahsanu

[sahsanu]

@MAN5

Seems this works. Now no more emails

That doesn’t mean it is working.

It should work fine with nologin.

Just to check:

ls -l /usr/local/hestia/bin/v-update-sys*

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[sahsanu]

Ok, looks good but I don’t know the root cause yet and I’m curious.

[MAN5]

OK, i set back to previous for admin nologin:
admin:x:1000:1000:[email protected]:/home/admin:/usr/sbin/nologin

I did HestiaCP >/list/user/ > Admin > Rebuil user profile.
Will monitor