Install sudo on RHEL

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I have an ansible playbook, wich connects to a remote server.
On that remote server sudo is not installed. I can only gather root access with running dzdo su - in terminal.
I tried to run following task to install sudo

`

  • name: Install sudo
    yum:
    name: sudo
    become: yes
    become_user: root
    `

But when I run the code I get following error:

TASK [docker-yum : Install sudo] *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [10.7.201.186]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “changes”: {“installed”: [“sudo”]}, “msg”: “Repo rhui-rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-source-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-source-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-source-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-source-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-source-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-source-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rh-common-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rh-common-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rh-common-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rh-common-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rh-common-source-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rh-common-source-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-source-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-source-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-supplementary-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-supplementary-debug-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/key.pem\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-supplementary-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/rhui/product/content.crt\nRepo rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-supplementary-rpms forced 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2

The default become_method is sudo, and since you don't have that
available, you can't "become", and hence you can't install a package.
But, you don't HAVE to use sudo, it's just the default.
You already have an alternative privilege escalation option (dzdo).
I'd try using that first, because it is supported by ansible:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/become/dzdo.html

Also read https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/become.html#become-plugins

Or maybe even start with
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/become.html

Dick

3

Thanks for your reply.

I tried to use dzdo as become option:

`

  • name: Install sudo
    yum:
    name: sudo
    become: dzdo

`

But I encounter the same issue message.

4

Thanks for your reply.

I tried to use dzdo as become option:
>
-name:Installsudo
yum:
name:sudo
become:dzdo
>

But I encounter the same issue message.

Small wonder as you apparently failed to read or understand the documentation :-/

I suppose it should be something like:

become: yes
become_method: dzdo
become_user: root
become_flags: 'su -'

Regards
         Racke