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Hi,

playbook is

  • hosts: servers
    remote_user: ubuntu
    become: yes
    become_user: root
    become_method: sudo
    tasks:
  • name: Install tmux
    apt: name=tmux state=present

error:fatal: [192.168.80.129]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “module_stderr”: “Shared connection to 192.168.80.129 closed.\r\n”, “module_stdout”: “sudo: a password is required\r\n”, “msg”: “MODULE FAILURE”, “rc”: 1}

Thanks

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Hello

The reason for the failure is that the playbook is not able to retrieve the credentials for Ubuntu user to become root. In order to resolve this you will have to use --ask-sudo-pass suffix everytime you execute an ansible-palybook command. Else you may make an entry in ansible.cfg to set ask_pass : TRUE using either of the below options. This will prompt playbook to explicitly ask for sudo credentials every time at run time:

[OPTION-1] : Add below lines to defaults in ansible.cfg.

[defaults]

sudo_user = root

ask_pass = True

[OPTION-2] : Run below export command.

export ANSIBLE_ASK_SUDO_PASS=true

Thanks