# roles and privileges confusion

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/roles-and-privileges-confusion/13088>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 9, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/roles-and-privileges-confusion/13088 "2013-07-09T03:40:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![weiwei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@weiwei](https://forum.ansible.com/u/weiwei)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/roles-and-privileges-confusion/13088/1 "2013-07-09T03:40:21Z")

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Hi

I just switched to Ansible 1.2, and tried using roles. But I am a bit confused about roles after reading ‘Best practices’.

There are two kinds of tasks in one role, ones need super user privileges and the others dont. Should I run the role twice: first with privileges and second without privileges?

Any suggestions will be appreciated!

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/roles-and-privileges-confusion/13088/2 "2013-07-09T14:56:14Z")

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you can add sudo:true|false at the task level.