Hello,
I have a task in a play that appends a group to the user running the playbook. For example, ubuntu user is running the play and does a task like:
- name: Append user group
sudo: yes
user:
name=“ubuntu”
append=“yes”
groups=“othergroup”
A later task then assumes that the ubuntu user can write to directories with othergroup write access. This is fine if ansible is not running with ControlMaster enabled since it starts a new SSH connection for every task. It is a problem when ControlMaster is enabled though because it re-uses the same connection which doesn’t cause the remote SSH process to re-load the user groups (meaning the process cannot write to the directory as expected).
In the past (using fabric) I could force the SSH connection to close after this task, but I don’t see a way to do that in ansible (which is probably better since that’s a hack). Is there a good way to reload the user’s group?
Thanks!