Problem change user with become or become_user

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Hey,

Hello every body !!

I work on Ansible and i have problem, when i want use become: yes or become_user: root it’s not works.

My task is :

  • name: “Create directory”
    file:
    path: /var/apps
    state: directory
    become_user: root

But when i use this task just before :

  • set_fact:
    ansible_user: root

My directory is create with success !! WHY ?

Someone have any idea please community ansible ??? I’m desperte :frowning:

Thank you very much !!

Regards,

Karther

2

Hi Karther,

I’m not an expert in ansible but with my current experience I believe this works for you because you are logging in as root which is the owner of /var/ folder. ansible_user is a default variable.

Typically for other modules like lineinfile I add ansible_beome: yes, which means run the file as sudo. my ansible_beocme_password is defined as a variable so I guess you can try doing that.

3

Hey,

Hello every body !!

I work on Ansible and i have problem, when i want use become: yes or become_user: root it's not works.

My task is :

- name: "Create directory"
  file:
    path: /var/apps
    state: directory
  become_user: root

become_user only tells ansible what user to become - not that it use
privilege escalation.
Also, become_user is default 'root', so that directive is redundant.

Instead simply use:

become: yes

But when i use this task just before :

- set_fact:
      ansible_user: root

My directory is create with success !! WHY ?

This means that ansible will sign in to the server as root, so then no
permission issues.

4

If your system allows you to go straight in as root, you could possibly use “remote_user” before running the task (see below):

5

Hey,

Thanks very much community Ansible !!

The solution is to use remote_user: root for that ansible execut this task in root !!!

thank you very much guy !!! :slight_smile:

Regards,

Karther