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2 years ago
I am trying to shutdown my RaspberryPi running Raspbian from a php script running on lighttpd webserver.
shell_exec("sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now 2>&1");I added
lighttpd ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdownto my /etc/sudoers file and checked thatDefaults !requirettyis set.I still get "sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified" when running the script.
Can somebody please help me? Thanks!