How to work around “sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo” without sacrificing security

[maymaym]

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While working on $client’s Linux server last week, I found myself installing a cron job that ran as root. The cron job called a custom bash script that, in turn, called out to various custom maintenance

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[anonymous]

Oh, nice, I'll have to file this for reference. I've run into this one before, though I've used either expect or pexpect to get around the tty requirement (with authentication_keys to eliminate password slinging). This is simpler...