Notify handler as different user

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Hi,

Long-time lurker, first time poster. First off, thanks for this excellent project.

I’d like to know, is it possible to run the ‘notify’ handler as a different user from the task which notified it? E.g.

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Hello,

Have you just tried? : D .

I have tried it like this

  • name: restart nginx
    service: name=nginx state=restarted
    sudo_user: username

But have in mind that user must have permissions for the service.

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P.S.

Im sorry for “spamming”, I have just tried the handler with sudo_user option to check if Ansible will call it. You cannot restart nginx as non root user.

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Yep, and if you are not wanting to use sudo, you can set “remote_user” instead.

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Holy crap, I can’t believe I didn’t try that earlier.

In my case, because project_user does not have root, I had to call remote_user instead.