# Authentication or permission failure. In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the remote directory. Consider changing the remote temp path in ansible.cfg to a path rooted in "/tmp". Failed command was: mk **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [April 21, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/authentication-or-permission-failure-in-some-cases-you-may-have-been-able-to-authenticate-and-did-not-have-permissions-on-the-remote-directory-consider-changing-the-remote-temp-path-in-ansible-cfg-to-a-path-rooted-in-tmp-failed-command-was-mk/18032 "2015-04-21T09:10:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rrrkiran12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@rrrkiran12](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rrrkiran12)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/authentication-or-permission-failure-in-some-cases-you-may-have-been-able-to-authenticate-and-did-not-have-permissions-on-the-remote-directory-consider-changing-the-remote-temp-path-in-ansible-cfg-to-a-path-rooted-in-tmp-failed-command-was-mk/18032/1 "2015-04-21T09:10:23Z")
I am getting this error when I ran the playbook for the remote node . Could you please let me know how to resolve this error ? ---
**Author:** ![Yassen\_Damyanov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9fc29f/32.png) [@Yassen\_Damyanov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yassen_Damyanov)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/authentication-or-permission-failure-in-some-cases-you-may-have-been-able-to-authenticate-and-did-not-have-permissions-on-the-remote-directory-consider-changing-the-remote-temp-path-in-ansible-cfg-to-a-path-rooted-in-tmp-failed-command-was-mk/18032/2 "2015-04-23T19:15:04Z")
1. Quoting from openbsd netiquette: “No one other than you has the information needed to resolve your problem, it is better to provide more information than needed than one detail too little”. Ideas: – Provide your task or playbook code that spits out this error; – Run the command with -vvvv for maximum verbosity and check the output. If it does not speak much to you, provide it here to the list for help. 2. Please use short (but descriptive) subjects for your messages. By no means paste a long error message like that as a subject. (It seems truncated, btw.) (And yes, your name as a signature will help people recognize you, which seems helpful.) BR, Yassen ---
**Author:** ![Laurent\_Hory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Laurent\_Hory](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Laurent_Hory)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/authentication-or-permission-failure-in-some-cases-you-may-have-been-able-to-authenticate-and-did-not-have-permissions-on-the-remote-directory-consider-changing-the-remote-temp-path-in-ansible-cfg-to-a-path-rooted-in-tmp-failed-command-was-mk/18032/3 "2016-02-04T15:22:42Z")
Hi, I have a same issue. Version: ansible --version 16:21:55  ✔ 0 /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Crypto/Util/number.py:57: PowmInsecureWarning: Not using mpz\_powm\_sec. You should rebuild using libgmp \>= 5 to avoid timing attack vulnerability. \_warn(“Not using mpz\_powm\_sec. You should rebuild using libgmp \>= 5 to avoid timing attack vulnerability.”, PowmInsecureWarning) ansible 2.0.0.2 config file = configured module search path = Default w/o overrides Command line $ ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook.yml -vvv /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Crypto/Util/number.py:57: PowmInsecureWarning: Not using mpz\_powm\_sec. You should rebuild using libgmp \>= 5 to avoid timing attack vulnerability. \_warn(“Not using mpz\_powm\_sec. You should rebuild using libgmp \>= 5 to avoid timing attack vulnerability.”, PowmInsecureWarning) Using /home\_raid1/laurent/dev/AIA/ansible.cfg as config file 1 plays in playbook.yml PLAY [create aia user] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* TASK [setup] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* \<3.249.12.53\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root \<3.249.12.53\> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -q -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=root -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home\_raid1/laurent/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -tt 3.249.12.53 ‘mkdir -p “$( echo /tmp/ansible/$USER/ansible-tmp-1454599171.43-1430744300902 )” && echo “$( echo /tmp/ansible/$USER/ansible-tmp-1454599171.43-1430744300902 )”’ fatal: [rubis]: UNREACHABLE! =\> {“changed”: false, “msg”: “ERROR! Authentication or permission failure. In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the remote directory. Consider changing the remote temp path in ansible.cfg to a path rooted in "/tmp". Failed command was: mkdir -p "$( echo /tmp/ansible/$USER/ansible-tmp-1454599171.43-1430744300902 )" && echo "$( echo /tmp/ansible/$USER/ansible-tmp-1454599171.43-1430744300902 )", exited with result 1: Illegal variable name.\r\n”, “unreachable”: true} PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* rubis : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=1 failed=0 Playbook: - name: “create aia user” hosts: “rubis” user: “root” roles: - user Role: - name: create {{new\_user}} user user: name: “{{new\_user}}” password: “{{ password }}” comment: “specific aia user” group: “awuser” shell: “/bin/tcsh” groups: “awuser,iaa-v3d,sdc” append: “yes” state: “present” - name: add cshrc files template: src=.AWArc dest=/home/{{new\_user}}/.AWArc template: src=.cshrc dest=/home/{{new\_user}}/.cshrc template: src=.cshrc.atria dest=/home/{{new\_user}}/.cshrc.atria Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Laurent\_Hory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Laurent\_Hory](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Laurent_Hory)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/authentication-or-permission-failure-in-some-cases-you-may-have-been-able-to-authenticate-and-did-not-have-permissions-on-the-remote-directory-consider-changing-the-remote-temp-path-in-ansible-cfg-to-a-path-rooted-in-tmp-failed-command-was-mk/18032/4 "2016-02-12T10:02:51Z")
On my workstation this issue is only with ansible 2.0.2. ansible 1.9.4 work ---
**Author:** ![Timothy\_Vandenbrande](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Timothy\_Vandenbrande](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Timothy_Vandenbrande)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/authentication-or-permission-failure-in-some-cases-you-may-have-been-able-to-authenticate-and-did-not-have-permissions-on-the-remote-directory-consider-changing-the-remote-temp-path-in-ansible-cfg-to-a-path-rooted-in-tmp-failed-command-was-mk/18032/5 "2016-02-22T13:57:25Z")
I can confirm this. I have this issue on ansible 2.0.0.2, but works on ansible 1.9.x I get this error whicle running a script on a windows host. In playbook: - name: set some default settings script: defaults.ps1 In output: fatal: [acc-rt1903-sta]: UNREACHABLE! =\> {“changed”: false, “msg”: “ERROR! Authentication or permission failure. In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the remote directory. Consider changing the remote temp path in ansible.cfg to a path rooted in "/tmp". Failed command was: PowerShell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -EncodedCommand UwBlAHQALQBTAHQAcgBpAGMAdABNAG8AZABlACAALQBWAGUAcgBzAGkAbwBuACAATABhAHQAZQBzAHQACgAoAE4AZQB3AC0ASQB0AGUAbQAgAC0AVAB5AHAAZQAgAEQAaQByAGUAYwB0AG8AcgB5ACAALQBQAGEAdABoACAAJABlAG4AdgA6AHQAZQBtAHAAIAAtAE4AYQBtAGUAIAAiAGEAbgBzAGkAYgBsAGUALQB0AG0AcAAtADEANAA1ADYAMQA0ADgAOAA1ADAALgAyADMALQAxADQAMgA0ADcAOAA0ADQAOAA1ADMANwA4ADEANAAiACkALgBGAHUAbABsAE4AYQBtAGUAIAB8ACAAVwByAGkAdABlAC0ASABvAHMAdAAgAC0AUwBlAHAAYQByAGEAdABvAHIAIAAnACcAOwA=, exited with result 1”, “unreachable”: true} ---
**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/authentication-or-permission-failure-in-some-cases-you-may-have-been-able-to-authenticate-and-did-not-have-permissions-on-the-remote-directory-consider-changing-the-remote-temp-path-in-ansible-cfg-to-a-path-rooted-in-tmp-failed-command-was-mk/18032/6 "2016-02-22T15:23:13Z")
Hi, Can I check that you have replaced your ansible.cfg with a new version supplied with ansible 2.0.0.2? Jon