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mart1n
Asked: 2016-02-10 05:20:54 +0800 CST

Ansible log in as regular user and become root

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using the new "become" syntax, how do you configure your playbook to log in to a host as a regular user, switch to the root user and ask for a password?

I tried:

---
- hosts: foo
  gather_facts: no
  remote_user: martin
  become: yes
  become_method: su

  tasks:
  - name: update
    yum: name=tree state=latest

This playbook just hands in the TASK phase. I also tried removing the become_method and using ansible-playbook book.yml --ask-become-pass but that also didn't work. Any ideas?

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1 Answers

  1. I think I hit something similar to this recently and ended up putting these lines in ansible.cfg:

    [privilege_escalation]
become=Yes
become_method=sudo
become_user=root
become_ask_pass=True

    I think the become_user directive is unnecessary as thats also the default, but I think it was the become_ask_pass that made the difference and stopped it hanging.

    Hope that helps.

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