Capistrano sudo password prompt

Question

I have a problem with capistrano and sudo prompt password. When I run cap deploy it asks me for sudo password but I type it and hit enter but it seems that it is still waiting for more input. How can I tell that I'm finished typing?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 29 '12 at 13:13

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Deployment process asks password not from you, but from executing process at your remote server so you can't access remote prompt. I have this problem once. Some solutions:

(Bad). Use sudo_password in your deploy.rb
(Good). Setup right and permissions to not to use sudo access at all.

Second advice much better :)

answered Oct 29 '12 at 13:13

Sergey Gerasimov

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Additionally you can look at this solution: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6057262/323249 – Sergey Gerasimov Oct 29 '12 at 13:14
so there is no way to pass password to this prompt? it would be very strang since this is recommended capistrano way? – Adrian Serafin Oct 29 '12 at 13:29
If you deployment user is not root - then there's really not a way to do so. Use root as deployment user (if it's possible) or setup permissions for your current deployment user. – Sergey Gerasimov Oct 29 '12 at 13:32

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 28 '13 at 02:36

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Did you try this in deploy.rb?

default_run_options[:pty] = true

answered Sep 28 '13 at 02:36

untidyhair

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Capistrano sudo password prompt

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