Ansible-Pull Copy Error

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I was following a tutorial from a year ago so perhaps something in Ansible has changed. My issue is I get this error:

TASK [copy sudoers_ansible] ****************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “checksum”: “9c9e5aae4aa1c02a4934d7172d2c4cd6c057d15d”, “msg”: “Unsupported parameters for (ansible.legacy.copy) module: root Supported parameters include:
_original_basename, attributes, backup, checksum, content, dest, directory_mode, follow, force, group, local_follow, mode, owner, remote_src, selevel, serole, setype, seuser, src, unsafe_writes, validate”}

  • name: copy sudoers_ansible
    copy:
    src: files/sudoers_ansible
    dest: /etc/sudoers.d/ansible
    owner: root
    group: root

mode: 0440

I’ve added ansible as a system sudoer. All of the parameters I’m using; src, dest, owner, group and mode seem to be listed as supported in the error message.

2

Are you sure this is the task that is being run?
Try adding an extra bogus parameter, that should then be listed in the error message

3

I added a bogus parameter to my users.yml file as follows;

  • name: copy sudoers_ansible
    copy:
    bogus: parameter
    src: files/sudoers_ansible
    dest: /etc/sudoers.d/ansible
    owner: root
    root: root
    mode: 0440

Now the error message reads:

TASK [copy sudoers_ansible] ****************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “checksum”: “9c9e5aae4aa1c02a4934d7172d2c4cd6c057d15d”, “msg”: “Unsupported parameters for (ansible.legacy.copy) module: bogus, root Supported parameters include: _original_basename, attributes, backup, checksum, content, dest, directory_mode, follow, force, group, local_follow, mode, owner, remote_src, selevel, serole, setype, seuser, src, unsafe_writes, validate”}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

I also verified that the destination file “/etc/sudoers.d/ansible” does not exist. The source file “~/git projects/ansible_pull/tasks/files/sudoers_ansible” does exist.

Paul

4

I added a bogus parameter to my users.yml file as follows;

  • name: copy sudoers_ansible
    copy:
    bogus: parameter
    src: files/sudoers_ansible
    dest: /etc/sudoers.d/ansible
    owner: root
    root: root

There is your issue.
You didn’t post this in the first place?

5

OK, I’m lost. What is my issue? The formatting of your reply is a bit funky. But if you are talking about “mode: 0440”, that was in the initial post. Is there something wrong with that, and if so, what?

6

Hi Paul,

he was talking about the line **above** what he wrote, which is 'root:
root'. That line was **not** included in your first post, and that's
the line that's wrong. It must be 'user: root' (as it was in your first
post).

> root: root

Cheers,
Felix

7

I must have been reviewing the wrong file, not the one that was being executed, because it said group: root. But the actual users.yml did have root: root and now it works as expected.

Sorry, for MY confusion.