stuck on "Missing become password"

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Hello
I’m trying to run a playbook that will login as user ansible and then sudo to root to make configurations. I have a sudo entry that will allow root without password. The playbook looks like this:

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Try replacing become_user: root with:

become_method: sudo

That may work better.

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become_user defaults to root, no need to specify, same with become_method: sudo

can you run with -vvvv and show the output? also what ansible version?
OSs involved?

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become_user defaults to root, no need to specify, same with become_method: sudo

can you run with -vvvv and show the output? also what ansible version?
OSs involved?

Thanks for your help, The OS is Oracle Linux 6.7. This is a run with -vvvv and the identical playbook.

[ansible@devansible01 playbooks]$ ansible-playbook -vvvv dave_test.yml

PLAY [10.53.153.32] ***********************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
<10.53.153.32> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: ansible
<10.53.153.32> REMOTE_MODULE setup
<10.53.153.32> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath=“/home/ansible/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r” -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 10.53.153.32 /bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1448461765.18-146079134487044 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1448461765.18-146079134487044 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1448461765.18-146079134487044’
<10.53.153.32> PUT /tmp/tmp6GajGq TO /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1448461765.18-146079134487044/setup
<10.53.153.32> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath=“/home/ansible/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r” -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 10.53.153.32 /bin/sh -c ‘sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p “[sudo via ansible, key=tegibnqlmaxkmlsnfbhesmbwdtrirnci] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '”’“‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-tegibnqlmaxkmlsnfbhesmbwdtrirnci; LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C /usr/bin/python /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1448461765.18-146079134487044/setup; rm -rf /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1448461765.18-146079134487044/ >/dev/null 2>&1’”‘"’’
fatal: [10.53.153.32] => Missing become password

TASK: [create zabbix group] ***************************************************
FATAL: no hosts matched or all hosts have already failed – aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @/home/ansible/dave_test.retry

10.53.153.32 : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=1 failed=0

Thanks! Dave

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become_user defaults to root, no need to specify, same with become_method: sudo

can you run with -vvvv and show the output? also what ansible version?
OSs involved?

Sorry, omiited the ansible version. We’re running 1.9.2

DT