Shouldn’t --user on command line overwrite ansible_user?

Kai_Stian_Olstad (Kai Stian Olstad) March 3, 2017, 8:17am 1

In the host_var file for the server I have ansible_user set like this.

$ cat host_vars/u1.yml

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