chown failed in file module

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Hi,

I am using ansible 1.7.2 and see the chown is not working

olga@ubuntu:~/ansible/try/02$ ansible localhost -u root -k -m file -a ‘path=/tmp/test6 state=directory mode=0700 owner=root’
SSH password:
localhost | FAILED >> {
“failed”: true,
“gid”: 1001,
“group”: “olga”,
“mode”: “0775”,
“msg”: “chown failed”,
“owner”: “olga”,
“path”: “//tmp/test6”,
“size”: 4096,
“state”: “directory”,
“uid”: 1001
}

What is the right command option to create dir owned by the sudo user ?

Thanks,
olga

2

You are SSHing as root, is permitremoterootlogin enabled?

3

“You are SSHing as root, is permitremoterootlogin enabled?”

If that were the case the error would appear further up.

Also sudo isn’t being used because of the “-u root”

Is there anything unusual about /tmp we might need to know?

4

So doing this on a bare install of ubuntu 14.04 LTS makes it work.

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mark@ans:~$ ansible localhost -u root -k -m file -a ‘path=/tmp/test6 state=directory mode=0700 owner=root’
SSH password:
sudo password [defaults to SSH password]:
localhost | success >> {
“changed”: false,
“gid”: 0,
“group”: “root”,
“mode”: “0700”,
“owner”: “root”,
“path”: “/tmp/test6”,
“size”: 4096,
“state”: “directory”,
“uid”: 0
}

`

Doing this on my CentOS will fail in the same way you see it fail.

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[markh@sen-ansible-int ~]$ ansible localhost -u root -k -m file -a 'path=/tmp/test6 state=direct SSH password:
sudo password [defaults to SSH password]:
localhost | FAILED >> {
“failed”: true,
“gid”: 60007,
“group”: “senuser”,
“mode”: “0755”,
“msg”: “chown failed”,
“owner”: “markh”,
“path”: “//tmp/test6”,
“size”: 4096,
“state”: “directory”,
“uid”: 60018

`

Ofcourse there are a lot of settings that diff between these 2 systems, but one is not, and those are the filerights on /tmp which are exactly the same…

does running it in -vvvv gives you any more details?

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Hi Mark,

I’m using ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I can ssh as “root” in localhost and enabled PermitRootLogin in ssh_config file

olga@ubuntu:~/ansible/try/02$ ansible localhost -u root -k -m file -a ‘path=/tmp/test11 state=directory mode=0700 owner=root’ -vvv
SSH password:
REMOTE_MODULE file path=/tmp/test11 state=directory mode=0700 owner=root
EXEC [‘/bin/sh’, ‘-c’, ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1412246841.03-7250721660070 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1412246841.03-7250721660070’]
PUT /tmp/tmptdYxcv TO /home/olga/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1412246841.03-7250721660070/file
EXEC [‘/bin/sh’, ‘-c’, u’LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C /usr/bin/python /home/olga/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1412246841.03-7250721660070/file; rm -rf /home/olga/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1412246841.03-7250721660070/ >/dev/null 2>&1’]
localhost | FAILED >> {
“failed”: true,
“gid”: 1001,
“group”: “olga”,
“mode”: “0775”,
“msg”: “chown failed”,
“owner”: “olga”,
“path”: “/tmp/test11”,
“size”: 4096,
“state”: “directory”,
“uid”: 1001
}

root@ubuntu:/tmp# ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 4096 Oct 2 16:23 /tmp
root@ubuntu:/tmp#

I tried with a wrong “ssh” password for root ( -k option ) , it created the dir in /tmp and the error was same. I was not expecting this and the command should not have created the dir.

Regards,
Olga