How to fix 'sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified' error?

Question

I am trying to compile some sources using a makefile. In the makefile there is a bunch of commands that need to be ran as sudo.

When I compile the sour

Answer 1

If you add this line to your /etc/sudoers (via visudo) it will fix this problem without having to disable entering your password and when an alias for sudo -S won't work (scripts calling sudo):

Defaults visiblepw

Of course read the manual yourself to understand it, but I think for my use case of running in an LXD container via lxc exec instance -- /bin/bash its pretty safe since it isn't printing the password over a network.