Gitlab-Runner doesn't have sudo access on OSX

Question

I have installed gitlab-runner on a new OSX device. My runner is register and launch correctly.

But when i start a job, I have this error

sudo gem install fastlane
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

What can I do avoid this error and let gitlab-runner have sudo access to execute anything?

Answer 1

Most probably you granted the sudo permission to your gitlab-runner user, but you did not remove the password restriction for sudo for the gitlab-runner user. Here you can find how to do it.

However I would not recommend using sudo. You could use Bundler and then install fastlane with bundler for this project and not globally.

1. gem install bundler -> you will get a Gemfile for the current directory (root of the project)

2. put gem "fastlane" into the Gemfile

3. install it with bundle install (you can run this command with your gitlab-runner user in jobs)

For running fastlane lanes use: bundle exec fastlane <name_of_the_lane> .