# Ansible copy as remote user Issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 23, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-as-remote-user-issue/24044 "2017-03-23T14:47:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jzm2001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jzm2001](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jzm2001)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-as-remote-user-issue/24044/1 "2017-03-23T14:47:48Z")
I’m new to ansible…so bear with me. I created a simple playbook that takes a 0 byte file and copies it to remote hosts under a different user, creating the directory to put it in prior to the copy. We have a mix of python 2.6 and 2.7 on our Linux hosts (running redhat 6). The execution is successful on 1 host only. My Playbook (.yml) looks like: ---
**Author:** ![Phonthip\_Namkaew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Phonthip\_Namkaew](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Phonthip_Namkaew)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-as-remote-user-issue/24044/2 "2017-03-23T20:52:54Z")
There is a permission denied: "msg": "There was an issue creating bin-tmp as requested: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'bin-tmp' Maybe not all server are set up the same way (rights, owner, groups). Can you create the dir manually being the become\_user on the host? Try to create a dir /tmp/bin-tmp ( a full path). If this works on all servers, try to narrow down the problem. ---
**Author:** ![jzm2001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jzm2001](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jzm2001)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-as-remote-user-issue/24044/3 "2017-03-23T21:31:44Z")
yes, i was aware of the permission denied and I checked the permissions on the entire FS directory structure being written to and all the perms are the same across all 15 hosts. I can create directories/files in /tmp so can the user websphe I sudo into. I set my playbook to do serial: 1 and export the variable ANSIBLE\_KEEP\_REMOTE\_FILES=1 to see what was being written where. As per the playbook it attempts to create the folder in the home of websphe, not in /tmp. Then if that is successful, it will create the file in the bin-tmp directory. If i manually create the bin-tmp folder it still complains it cannot create the folder permission denied error. In /tmp on the remote host it created: drwxr-x—+ 2 jm6239 sretpe 4096 Mar 23 14:23 ansible-tmp-1490304237.71-42478243914318 obviously the name changes for each host. I added the -vvvv option and it’s not much more help: $ ansible-playbook -i inventory/staging -vvvv site.yml /home/jm6239/python26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cryptography/ **init**.py:26: DeprecationWarning: Python 2.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team, please upgrade your Python. A future version of cryptography will drop support for Python 2.6 DeprecationWarning No config file found; using defaults Loading callback plugin default of type stdout, v2.0 from /home/jm6239/python26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/plugins/callback/ **init**.pyc PLAYBOOK: site.yml \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* 1 plays in site.yml PLAY [all] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* TASK [create bin directory] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* task path: /home/jm6239/apb/site.yml:8 Using module file /home/jm6239/python26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/modules/core/files/file.py \<[zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r [zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com) ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’"’( umask 77 && mkdir -p “`echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304420.41-56306997831746`” && echo ansible-tmp-1490304420.41-56306997831746=“`echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304420.41-56306997831746`” ) && sleep 0’“'”‘’ \<[zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com)\> PUT /tmp/tmpZGEDnn TO /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304420.41-56306997831746/file.py \<[zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC sftp -b - -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r ‘[[zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com)]’ \<[zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r [zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com) ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’“‘setfacl -m u:websphe:r-x /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304420.41-56306997831746/ /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304420.41-56306997831746/file.py && sleep 0’”’“‘’ \<[zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -tt [zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com) '/bin/sh -c '”‘“'sudo -H -S -n -u websphe /bin/sh -c '”’“'”‘"’“'”‘"’“‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-rbchxbeiebdjawddkvoyzeezexijyggy; /usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304420.41-56306997831746/file.py’”‘"’“'”‘"’“'”‘"’ && sleep 0’“'”‘’ fatal: [[zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com)]: FAILED! =\> { “changed”: false, “failed”: true, “invocation”: { “module\_args”: { “backup”: null, “content”: null, “delimiter”: null, “diff\_peek”: null, “directory\_mode”: null, “follow”: false, “force”: false, “group”: null, “mode”: null, “original\_basename”: null, “owner”: null, “path”: “bin-tmp”, “recurse”: false, “regexp”: null, “remote\_src”: null, “selevel”: null, “serole”: null, “setype”: null, “seuser”: null, “src”: null, “state”: “directory”, “unsafe\_writes”: null, “validate”: null }, “module\_name”: “file” }, “msg”: “There was an issue creating bin-tmp as requested: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘bin-tmp’”, “path”: “bin-tmp”, “state”: “absent” } to retry, use: --limit @/home/jm6239/apb/site.retry PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* [zlt11405.vci.att.com](http://zlt11405.vci.att.com) : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 ---
**Author:** ![jzm2001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jzm2001](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jzm2001)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-as-remote-user-issue/24044/4 "2017-03-23T21:38:31Z")
I changed my hosts file to only have the working host and this is the output with -vvvv option: $ ansible-playbook -i inventory/staging -vvvv site.yml /home/jm6239/python26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cryptography/ **init**.py:26: DeprecationWarning: Python 2.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team, please upgrade your Python. A future version of cryptography will drop support for Python 2.6 DeprecationWarning No config file found; using defaults Loading callback plugin default of type stdout, v2.0 from /home/jm6239/python26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/plugins/callback/ **init**.pyc PLAYBOOK: site.yml \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* 1 plays in site.yml PLAY [all] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* TASK [create bin directory] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* task path: /home/jm6239/apb/site.yml:7 Using module file /home/jm6239/python26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/modules/core/files/file.py \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r [zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com) ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’"’( umask 77 && mkdir -p “`echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304963.93-167360694044386`” && echo ansible-tmp-1490304963.93-167360694044386=“`echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304963.93-167360694044386`” ) && sleep 0’“'”‘’ \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> PUT /tmp/tmpSAzmvD TO /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304963.93-167360694044386/file.py \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC sftp -b - -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r ‘[[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)]’ \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r [zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com) ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’“‘setfacl -m u:websphe:r-x /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304963.93-167360694044386/ /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304963.93-167360694044386/file.py && sleep 0’”’“‘’ \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -tt [zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com) '/bin/sh -c '”‘“'sudo -H -S -n -u websphe /bin/sh -c '”’“'”‘"’“'”‘"’“‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-qbtkjugivbiurbbkajdovxhabozqahri; /usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304963.93-167360694044386/file.py’”‘"’“'”‘"’“'”‘"’ && sleep 0’“'”‘’ ok: [[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)] =\> { “changed”: false, “diff”: { “after”: { “path”: “bin-tmp” }, “before”: { “path”: “bin-tmp” } }, “gid”: 600, “group”: “websphe”, “invocation”: { “module\_args”: { “backup”: null, “content”: null, “delimiter”: null, “diff\_peek”: null, “directory\_mode”: null, “follow”: false, “force”: false, “group”: null, “mode”: null, “original\_basename”: null, “owner”: null, “path”: “bin-tmp”, “recurse”: false, “regexp”: null, “remote\_src”: null, “selevel”: null, “serole”: null, “setype”: null, “seuser”: null, “src”: null, “state”: “directory”, “unsafe\_writes”: null, “validate”: null }, “module\_name”: “file” }, “mode”: “0750”, “owner”: “websphe”, “path”: “bin-tmp”, “size”: 23, “state”: “directory”, “uid”: 600 } TASK [copy file] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* task path: /home/jm6239/apb/site.yml:9 Using module file /home/jm6239/python26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/modules/core/files/stat.py \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r [zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com) ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’"’( umask 77 && mkdir -p “`echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304964.62-180098139679591`” && echo ansible-tmp-1490304964.62-180098139679591=“`echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304964.62-180098139679591`” ) && sleep 0’“'”‘’ \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> PUT /tmp/tmpSAzmvD TO /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304964.62-180098139679591/stat.py \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC sftp -b - -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r ‘[[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)]’ \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r [zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com) ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’“‘setfacl -m u:websphe:r-x /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304964.62-180098139679591/ /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304964.62-180098139679591/stat.py && sleep 0’”’“‘’ \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -tt [zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com) '/bin/sh -c '”‘“'sudo -H -S -n -u websphe /bin/sh -c '”’“'”‘"’“'”‘"’“‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-vhwdotdcrejnwkbsjrjqxabmpqkbxmal; /usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304964.62-180098139679591/stat.py’”‘"’“'”‘"’“'”‘"’ && sleep 0’“'”‘’ Using module file /home/jm6239/python26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/modules/core/files/file.py \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r [zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com) ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’"’( umask 77 && mkdir -p “`echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304965.03-76353737824909`” && echo ansible-tmp-1490304965.03-76353737824909=“`echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304965.03-76353737824909`” ) && sleep 0’“'”‘’ \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> PUT /tmp/tmpeDGPZb TO /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304965.03-76353737824909/file.py \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC sftp -b - -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r ‘[[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)]’ \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r [zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com) ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’“‘setfacl -m u:websphe:r-x /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304965.03-76353737824909/ /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304965.03-76353737824909/file.py && sleep 0’”’“‘’ \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)\> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jm6239/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -tt [zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com) '/bin/sh -c '”‘“'sudo -H -S -n -u websphe /bin/sh -c '”’“'”‘"’“'”‘"’“‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-urxseihnvczhzziuuucztrltyehnazuu; /usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible-tmp-1490304965.03-76353737824909/file.py’”‘"’“'”‘"’“'”‘"’ && sleep 0’“'”‘’ ok: [[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)] =\> { “changed”: false, “checksum”: “da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709”, “dest”: “bin-tmp/jm\_temp.sh”, “diff”: { “after”: { “path”: “bin-tmp/jm\_temp.sh” }, “before”: { “path”: “bin-tmp/jm\_temp.sh” } }, “gid”: 600, “group”: “websphe”, “invocation”: { “module\_args”: { “backup”: null, “content”: null, “delimiter”: null, “dest”: “bin-tmp/jm\_temp.sh”, “diff\_peek”: null, “directory\_mode”: null, “follow”: false, “force”: false, “group”: null, “mode”: null, “original\_basename”: “temp.sh”, “owner”: null, “path”: “bin-tmp/jm\_temp.sh”, “recurse”: false, “regexp”: null, “remote\_src”: null, “selevel”: null, “serole”: null, “setype”: null, “seuser”: null, “src”: “temp.sh”, “state”: null, “unsafe\_writes”: null, “validate”: null } }, “mode”: “0640”, “owner”: “websphe”, “path”: “bin-tmp/jm\_temp.sh”, “size”: 0, “state”: “file”, “uid”: 600 } PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* [zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com) : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-as-remote-user-issue/24044/5 "2017-03-23T21:50:05Z")
A faster way of debug this might be to run these two tasks - command: pwd - command: ls -la When running the tasks with -v you see the stdout and can determine in which directory it's trying to create the directory and the permissions there. ---
**Author:** ![jzm2001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jzm2001](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jzm2001)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-as-remote-user-issue/24044/6 "2017-03-24T13:59:03Z")
ok…i added the pwd and ls command into my playbook. Reran and it appears that the sudo is not working for 14 of the hosts. I modified my hosts to have 1 good and 1 bad and this is the results of the pwd: TASK [command] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* changed: [[zlt11404.vci.att.com](http://zlt11404.vci.att.com)] =\> {“changed”: true, “cmd”: [“pwd”], “delta”: “0:00:00.008074”, “end”: “2017-03-24 06:55:40.534256”, “rc”: 0, “start”: “2017-03-24 06:55:40.526182”, “stderr”: “”, “stdout”: “/home/jm6239”, “stdout\_lines”: [“/home/jm6239”], “warnings”: } changed: [[zlt14143.vci.att.com](http://zlt14143.vci.att.com)] =\> {“changed”: true, “cmd”: [“pwd”], “delta”: “0:00:01.008465”, “end”: “2017-03-24 06:55:42.409550”, “rc”: 0, “start”: “2017-03-24 06:55:41.401085”, “stderr”: “”, “stdout”: “/home/websphe”, “stdout\_lines”: [“/home/websphe”], “warnings”: } The zlt14143 is the server it’s working on. As you see it says the directory is /home/websphe and on the zlt11404 it is showing my personal home. I’ve compared everything i can think of and cannot see why it’s not working on 14 of the hosts. ---
**Author:** ![jzm2001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jzm2001](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jzm2001)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-copy-as-remote-user-issue/24044/7 "2017-03-31T14:03:15Z")
Found the issue. For some reason on all the hosts but 1 it’s pulling in my personal home information not the account i’m sudo’d into. Which that account does not have permissions to write to my home. I exact pathed the locations to put the file and problem was solved.