How to add become password in a task?

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I’ve read the docs and it seems like all of them point me to coding the p/w either on the CLI or in group vars, but I want to do this

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2

What works is in the documentation.
The reason you don't find something like this in the documentation is because the feature doesn't exist.

3

This can still be done, you can set the ansible_become_password variable using the vars argument like so;

- command: whoami
  become: yes
  become_user: user
  vars:
    ansible_become_password: password

The vars key can be used to set any variable for that particular task and it can even include ansible_become_user if you want to override the host variable if set where become_user is just a fallback.

Thanks

Jordan