# exec from /tmp permission denied

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/exec-from-tmp-permission-denied/25779>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 19, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/exec-from-tmp-permission-denied/25779 "2017-10-19T14:30:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Julian\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Julian\_Brown](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Julian_Brown)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/exec-from-tmp-permission-denied/25779/1 "2017-10-19T14:30:52Z")

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In our environment we do not allow execution from /tmp.

So:

Julians-Macbook-Pro:deploy\_with\_ansible julianbrown$ cat ansible.cfg  
[defaults]  
inventory = myhosts.ini  
remote\_tmp = ~/.ansible/tmp  
local\_tmp = ~/.ansible/tmp

[ssh\_connection]  
ssh\_args=-o ForwardAgent=yes

I tell it to use ~/.ansible/tmp

Playbook:

Julians-Macbook-Pro:deploy\_with\_ansible julianbrown$ cat deploy\_julian\_bin.yml

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/exec-from-tmp-permission-denied/25779/2 "2017-10-19T14:43:23Z")

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Try setting remote\_tmp to /var/tmp. There is an issue with remote\_tmp  
and permission downscaling, Ansible currently defaults to /tmp to  
compensate for this. This setting is global but I'm working on making  
it host specific and allow to specify the fallback/system temp dirs  
when needed.

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/31677](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/31677)

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**Author:** ![Julian\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Julian\_Brown](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Julian_Brown)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/exec-from-tmp-permission-denied/25779/3 "2017-10-19T15:00:52Z")

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OK I tried that, but it insists on using /tmp for that git execution. Ansible may not be usable by me, dang this is a show stopper.

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**Author:** ![Julian\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Julian\_Brown](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Julian_Brown)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/exec-from-tmp-permission-denied/25779/4 "2017-10-19T15:22:02Z")

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I worked around it by using “command:” and putting a git command in there.

If I were more confident in what I am doing, I would file a bug report. It looks like the “git:” command does not look at remote\_tmp.

Thanx

Julian

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/exec-from-tmp-permission-denied/25779/5 "2017-10-19T16:03:16Z")

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Ah, nvmd, git module has it's own wrapper, try setting environemnt:  
TEMP or TMP=/var/tmp, git module uses mktemp function to create it's  
own temporary wrapper file. (also planning on fixing this)