# Latest **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=926 [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) **Page:** 927 --- ## [RE: \[ansible-devel\] Re: Kerberos domain authentication for Windows hosts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/re-ansible-devel-re-kerberos-domain-authentication-for-windows-hosts/16555)
**Author:** [@Nicolas\_Deslandes](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nicolas_Deslandes)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/re-ansible-devel-re-kerberos-domain-authentication-for-windows-hosts/16555 "2014-10-21T00:03:36Z")
I agree, that’s a good point. You might very well want to use basic auth or NTLM to authenticate a domain user. So the ‘ansible\_authorization\_type’ parameter suggested by jhawkesworth would probably be a better way to s… --- ## [Trouble running make install from source](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trouble-running-make-install-from-source/16543)
**Author:** [@Trond\_Hindenes](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Trond_Hindenes)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trouble-running-make-install-from-source/16543 "2014-10-20T21:38:04Z")
Hi all, I’m trying to run make install on my copy of ansible checked out from source. The make task runs fine, but I ansible is complaining that it can’t find the setup module. Looking at /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-… --- ## [raising errorinventory script](https://forum.ansible.com/t/raising-errorinventory-script/16563)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/raising-errorinventory-script/16563 "2014-10-20T21:37:13Z")
Yeah that’s pretty much all you can do and would be a good approach. --- ## [writing a an ansible module - seems that Popen is spending a long time polling](https://forum.ansible.com/t/writing-a-an-ansible-module-seems-that-popen-is-spending-a-long-time-polling/16534)
**Author:** [@Bryan\_Hunt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bryan_Hunt)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/writing-a-an-ansible-module-seems-that-popen-is-spending-a-long-time-polling/16534 "2014-10-20T21:36:40Z")
Hello all, Perhaps this is a general Python question, if so, I apologize in advance for having had the temerity to ask it here. One of our team was complaining that the Riak stuff was slow. Now this is always a subject… --- ## [Location OpenStack Ansible modules](https://forum.ansible.com/t/location-openstack-ansible-modules/16522)
**Author:** [@Er0](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Er0)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/location-openstack-ansible-modules/16522 "2014-10-20T21:34:15Z")
Hi, We recently started using Ansible to manage our OpenStack deployments. In the process of doing so, I have been updating modules in the cloud/ section (keystone, nova\_compute) to add support for features that I need … --- ## [Lucid compatibility](https://forum.ansible.com/t/lucid-compatibility/16496)
**Author:** [@Henry\_Finucane](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Henry_Finucane)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/lucid-compatibility/16496 "2014-10-20T21:22:57Z")
Is anyone interested in lucid compatibility for the apt module? I muddled my way into a successful run today (https://github.com/hfinucane/ansible-modules-core/tree/lucid-apt), but I'm not sure if anyone's interested … --- ## [Playbooks that depend on other playbooks?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbooks-that-depend-on-other-playbooks/16480)
**Author:** [@Cody\_Krieger](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Cody_Krieger)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbooks-that-depend-on-other-playbooks/16480 "2014-10-20T21:20:44Z")
Hi all, I’ve got a couple of playbooks that depend on other playbooks in order to eliminate as much repetition as possible. For example, one playbook is responsible for basic server configuration, which is a dependency … --- ## [site.yml file location and roles](https://forum.ansible.com/t/site-yml-file-location-and-roles/16514)
**Author:** [@Daniel\_Laird](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Daniel_Laird)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/site-yml-file-location-and-roles/16514 "2014-10-20T21:19:11Z")
All, Is it possible to have the site.yml file and hosts file in a subdirectory like this: root/ group\_vars/ roles … sites/ office\_name/ hosts site.yml When I tried to do this with ansible-playbook sites/office\_… --- ## [interpolated parameterized role dependencies](https://forum.ansible.com/t/interpolated-parameterized-role-dependencies/16520)
**Author:** [@alexahnhome](https://forum.ansible.com/u/alexahnhome)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/interpolated-parameterized-role-dependencies/16520 "2014-10-20T21:17:29Z")
Hey guys, first of all, I think Ansible is a great project. In my most recent project, I’ve started to explore the various ways to manage configurations, and one of the schemes that I wanted to explore was using paramete… --- ## [Ansible Galaxy](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy/16519)
**Author:** [@Matt\_Davies](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Matt_Davies)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy/16519 "2014-10-20T21:16:19Z")
Hello everyone I’m just starting my ansible journey, so please bear with me. I’m looking at ansible galaxy, but all the roles I seem to be finding only have one customer rating at most, and none of them have any ansibl… --- ## [getting inventory properties as a list](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-inventory-properties-as-a-list/16525)
**Author:** [@David\_Judd](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Judd)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-inventory-properties-as-a-list/16525 "2014-10-20T21:11:42Z")
I have a playbook which performs a potentially destructive action, which I expect to run with --limit normally, and I would like to assert that all hosts which meet a certain condition are included in my --limit to avoid… --- ## [roles\_path issues](https://forum.ansible.com/t/roles-path-issues/16530)
**Author:** [@Daniel\_Laird](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Daniel_Laird)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/roles-path-issues/16530 "2014-10-20T21:09:41Z")
All, I am fairly sure I am being stupid but… I have some roles somewhere on my PC. I have added to the roles\_path setting in both the local dir and /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg However when it runs it fails to find the r… --- ## [skipped role attempts to execute tasks based on tags](https://forum.ansible.com/t/skipped-role-attempts-to-execute-tasks-based-on-tags/16562)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/skipped-role-attempts-to-execute-tasks-based-on-tags/16562 "2014-10-20T21:08:50Z")
Can you please show where elb is set? --- ## [host variables](https://forum.ansible.com/t/host-variables/16540)
**Author:** [@Frank\_Soyer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Frank_Soyer)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/host-variables/16540 "2014-10-20T21:06:48Z")
Hi staff, I just find a small bug, tell me if you knew it. I was using an old version (1.1 !) and launched playbooks like that : in /etc/ansible/hosts : myserver mysql\_password=“123456” using {{ mysql\_password }} so… --- ## [Updating of files in /etc](https://forum.ansible.com/t/updating-of-files-in-etc/16561)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/updating-of-files-in-etc/16561 "2014-10-20T21:05:41Z")
I would start by looking at what user you are running Ansible as, it sounds like you need to specify sudo. --- ## [Ansible and Consistent Network Device Naming](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-consistent-network-device-naming/16549)
**Author:** [@Marcin\_Praczko](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marcin_Praczko)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-consistent-network-device-naming/16549 "2014-10-20T21:03:11Z")
Dear ansible users and developers. As I can see, all modern systems are going to solutions for consistent Network Device Naming. A bit details to read here: http://ask.xmodulo.com/change-network-interface-name-centos… --- ## [remote loop](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote-loop/16553)
**Author:** [@Adham\_H](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adham_H)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote-loop/16553 "2014-10-20T21:00:13Z")
Hey, We provision hundreds of unix users per host using the standard with\_items and user module. Correct me if i am wrong, When I use -vvvv for each user in the list a connection is created and the module is transferred… --- ## [Change rsync options on synchronize actions](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-rsync-options-on-synchronize-actions/16554)
**Author:** [@Joseph\_Jenkins](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joseph_Jenkins)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-rsync-options-on-synchronize-actions/16554 "2014-10-20T20:59:25Z")
I am trying to keep the hosts file synchronized on several ubuntu hosts and getting: failed: \[172.16.1.100\] =\> {“failed”: true, “item”: “”, “md5sum”: “cda722545bb95ca3925348b3adbe42f3”} msg: Destination /etc not writab… --- ## [menu prompts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/menu-prompts/16546)
**Author:** [@Jim\_McMahon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jim_McMahon)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/menu-prompts/16546 "2014-10-20T18:13:07Z")
All of the examples I’ve seen with Ansible prompts have been simple single line prompts. For example, vars\_prompt: name: "what is your name?" quest: "what is your quest?" favcolor: "what is your favorite c… --- ## [python library path issues](https://forum.ansible.com/t/python-library-path-issues/16497)
**Author:** [@Patrick\_Galbraith](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Patrick_Galbraith)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/python-library-path-issues/16497 "2014-10-20T14:24:09Z")
Hi all, Simple question– something I’ve encountered before where python has no problem finding a module but ansible can’t find it: line 132, in from comware\_5\_2 import Comware\_5\_2 ImportError: No module named comwa… --- ## [Postfix module](https://forum.ansible.com/t/postfix-module/16557)
**Author:** [@Eduardo\_Ramos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Eduardo_Ramos)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/postfix-module/16557 "2014-10-20T12:22:56Z")
Hi all! I would like to know if anyone has been working with a postfix/postconf/postqueue module. I’m a postmaster and I’m starting with ansible. Would it be interesting have a postfix module? Thnaks. --- ## [Rework of Nova Dynamic Inventory Plugin reviewers needed for pull request](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rework-of-nova-dynamic-inventory-plugin-reviewers-needed-for-pull-request/16047)
**Author:** [@Patrick\_Galbraith](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Patrick_Galbraith)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rework-of-nova-dynamic-inventory-plugin-reviewers-needed-for-pull-request/16047 "2014-10-20T11:17:52Z")
Hi all! I was hoping I could get some reviewers on my pull request for Nova dynamic inventory plugin? Monty Taylor added yet more useful functionality on top of my original working. I was focused on getting it to work w… --- ## [remote\_user temp](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote-user-temp/16533)
**Author:** [@Adham\_H](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adham_H)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remote-user-temp/16533 "2014-10-19T15:03:26Z")
Hi We provision our servers in a cloud provider. The provider injects ssh keys and create a temp user for our initial connection. We use that temp user to provision the machine and then the temp user will be disabled. … --- ## [Template not updated with correct values from group\_vars file](https://forum.ansible.com/t/template-not-updated-with-correct-values-from-group-vars-file/16531)
**Author:** [@Subramanian\_Olagappa](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Subramanian_Olagappa)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/template-not-updated-with-correct-values-from-group-vars-file/16531 "2014-10-19T14:20:02Z")
Hi All, I have a playbook which copy application.proprties with db.username and db.password. I have qa env and qa1 is a cluster with app and ui server. The hosts file (hosts.qa) is as per the best practises mentioned i… --- ## [2 sudo tasks in one play, 1 succeeds, the other fails](https://forum.ansible.com/t/2-sudo-tasks-in-one-play-1-succeeds-the-other-fails/16545)
**Author:** [@Martin\_van\_der\_Poel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Martin_van_der_Poel)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/2-sudo-tasks-in-one-play-1-succeeds-the-other-fails/16545 "2014-10-19T14:07:56Z")
So, i’m creating a role to auto install megatools, but i’m having trouble using sudo in a specific command, got the task / playbook and sh output here: https://gist.github.com/mvdpoel/288ef389abc5329e3ebd Just works: n… --- ## [another rework of the nova inventory](https://forum.ansible.com/t/another-rework-of-the-nova-inventory/16552)
**Author:** [@Tomas\_Karasek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tomas_Karasek)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2014, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/another-rework-of-the-nova-inventory/16552 "2014-10-19T11:58:05Z")
Hello, I opened a pull request with rework of the OpenStack Nova inventory script. I did it because I wasn’t happy with the current state of the inventory, and also wasn’t happy with the two pull requests I saw open: h… --- ## [Raising errors in inventory scripts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/raising-errors-in-inventory-scripts/16550)
**Author:** [@Tomas\_Karasek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tomas_Karasek)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 18, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/raising-errors-in-inventory-scripts/16550 "2014-10-18T18:32:28Z")
Hello, is there a proper way to report errors in dynamic inventory script? Somehow so that Ansible shows the error message to the user, rather than trying to parse it as JSON. I didn’t take a very deep look. I just saw… --- ## [ec2\_group task creates security group but not rules](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-group-task-creates-security-group-but-not-rules/16548)
**Author:** [@Dan\_Farrell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dan_Farrell)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 18, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-group-task-creates-security-group-but-not-rules/16548 "2014-10-18T16:12:02Z")
Hi All, I’m just getting started trying to use ansible for provisioning and orchestration of cloud resources in AWS, so I’ll apologize in advance for this noob question. I’ve used ec2\_group successfully before, but I ca… --- ## [Prompt question again. Thanks](https://forum.ansible.com/t/prompt-question-again-thanks/16521)
**Author:** [@Tiglath](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tiglath)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/prompt-question-again-thanks/16521 "2014-10-17T22:22:34Z")
Between my lack of Ansible mastery and its kind of syntax, rare is the day I don’t get stuck… Either the syntax is not intuitive or I have no intuition. I am trying to do something very simple and it seems very complic… --- ## [Which statement is true](https://forum.ansible.com/t/which-statement-is-true/16541)
**Author:** [@Tiglath](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tiglath)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/which-statement-is-true/16541 "2014-10-17T19:06:00Z")
I added run\_once because despite “local\_action” it seems to run once per host but locally. The error below contradicts the documentation. Or so it seems. 1: [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=925) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=927)