# ansible  become time out issue

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-become-time-out-issue/22366>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 24, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-become-time-out-issue/22366 "2016-08-24T08:38:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![hzj.zh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9bd4f/32.png) [@hzj.zh](https://forum.ansible.com/u/hzj.zh)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-become-time-out-issue/22366/1 "2016-08-24T08:38:19Z")

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hello，

come accross a problem,

there is this special hosts, i just cannot use ansible to become root user;

here is the ouput  
[root@localhost ~]# ansible host1 -m raw -a ‘uname -a’ -u admin4A -b --become-method=su -k -K  
SSH password:  
SU password[defaults to SSH password]:  
10.223.25.101 | FAILED | rc=0 \>\>  
Timeout (32s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt:

then i login to the remote host, type su command, the prompt is chinese；  
admin4A@vgopserver1:~\> su -  
口令：

i checked the ansible/playbook/play\_context.py ， the new prompt is not in the SU\_PROMPT\_LOCALIZATIONS list;

but it still didnot work after i put the “口令” into the SU\_PROMPT\_LOCALIZATIONS list;

any idea? did i modify the right python file ?

when i change the remote host lang to [en.US](http://en.US), all things goes well; but i still need to solve this prompt problem in ansible ? any help