# sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** awx\ **Created:** [July 12, 2017, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-effective-uid-is-not-0-is-sudo-installed-setuid-root/24961 "2017-07-12T08:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stianfp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@stianfp](https://forum.ansible.com/u/stianfp)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-effective-uid-is-not-0-is-sudo-installed-setuid-root/24961/1 "2017-07-12T08:59:44Z")
Hi, We get this when we try to run any job on our ansible clients via tower. Ansible tower server version 3.1.4, ansible version 2.4.0 (got the same error with older versions as well) Ansible server, and all other servers are also IDM (freeipa) implemented, might be relevant. The user has all the rights, and can sudo to root on all servers, and locally everything works for the ansible user on all servers with sudo. See attached photo of the rights on the sudo bin file, it is like this on all servers. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/8/8140b17f1af7bb906366b911878ee417dcbb9209.png)](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pSju220CZGE/WWXjEls7c_I/AAAAAAAAD78/RK7rmSvAZFQN3eq8TzmkWr7PdWebDPfdQCLcBGAs/s1600/1.PNG) [root@XXX XXX]# getfacl /usr/bin/sudo getfacl: Removing leading ‘/’ from absolute path names # file: usr/bin/sudo # owner: root # group: root # flags: s– user::–x group::–x other::–x We tested running this manually with ansible-playbook on cmd line, and with the --become option, it worked. But via tower, the "Enable Privilege Escalation " does not work. Job we ran via tower: eansible-playbook 2.4.0e 2 e config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfge 3 e configured module search path = [u’/var/lib/awx/.ansible/plugins/modules’, u’/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]e 4 e ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansiblee 5 e executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-playbooke 6 e python version = 2.7.5 (default, Aug 2 2016, 04:20:16) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)]e 7 eUsing /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config filee 8 SSH password: 9 Vault password: 10 eParsed /var/lib/awx/venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/plugins/inventory/awxrest.py inventory source with script plugine 11 e1 plays in baseline-inf.marops.tech.ymle 12 13 PLAY [all] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*10:32:37 14 15 TASK [Gathering Facts] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*10:32:37 16 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/basic.pye 17 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/ **init**.pye 18 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/collector.pye 19 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/namespace.pye 20 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/default\_collectors.pye 21 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/\_text.pye 22 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/pycompat24.pye 23 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/six/ **init**.pye 24 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/six/\_six.pye 25 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/timeout.pye 26 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/freebsd.pye 27 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/virtual/openbsd.pye 28 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/base.pye 29 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/dragonfly.pye 30 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/dragonfly.pye 31 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/aix.pye 32 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/aix.pye 33 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/linux.pye 34 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/platform.pye 35 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/hpux.pye 36 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/user.pye 37 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/hurd.pye 38 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/other/facter.pye 39 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/virtual/sunos.pye 40 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/hpux.pye 41 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/distribution.pye 42 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/virtual/freebsd.pye 43 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/ **init**.pye 44 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/openbsd.pye 45 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/darwin.pye 46 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/linux.pye 47 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/sunos.pye 48 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/sunos.pye 49 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/apparmor.pye 50 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/openbsd.pye 51 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/local.pye 52 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/other/ohai.pye 53 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/other/ **init**.pye 54 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/service\_mgr.pye 55 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/hurd.pye 56 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/virtual/hpux.pye 57 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/fips.pye 58 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/selinux.pye 59 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/virtual/ **init**.pye 60 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/pkg\_mgr.pye 61 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/dns.pye 62 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/virtual/base.pye 63 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/darwin.pye 64 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/virtual/dragonfly.pye 65 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/ssh\_pub\_keys.pye 66 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/ **init**.pye 67 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/ **init**.pye 68 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/lsb.pye 69 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/date\_time.pye 70 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/virtual/netbsd.pye 71 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/base.pye 72 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/cmdline.pye 73 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/freebsd.pye 74 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/netbsd.pye 75 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/hardware/netbsd.pye 76 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/caps.pye 77 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/env.pye 78 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/virtual/linux.pye 79 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/system/python.pye 80 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/network/generic\_bsd.pye 81 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/virtual/sysctl.pye 82 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/utils.pye 83 eUsing module\_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/facts/sysctl.pye 84 eUsing module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/system/setup.pye 85 e ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: awxe 86 e EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~ && sleep 0’e 87 e EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p “`echo /var/lib/awx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1499675558.31-212544145104699`” && echo ansible-tmp-1499675558.31-212544145104699=“`echo /var/lib/awx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1499675558.31-212544145104699`” ) && sleep 0’e 88 e PUT /tmp/tmpRMAhkW TO /var/lib/awx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1499675558.31-212544145104699/setup.pye 89 e EXEC /bin/sh -c ‘chmod u+x /var/lib/awx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1499675558.31-212544145104699/ /var/lib/awx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1499675558.31-212544145104699/setup.py && sleep 0’e 90 e EXEC /bin/sh -c ‘sudo -H -S -n -u root /bin/sh -c ‘"’“‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-qyavnlkmazufqqotggxvlqdqtaufnace; /usr/bin/python /var/lib/awx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1499675558.31-212544145104699/setup.py; rm -rf “/var/lib/awx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1499675558.31-212544145104699/” \> /dev/null 2\>&1’”’"’ && sleep 0’e 91 efatal: [XXXXXXX]: FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “module\_stderr”: “sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root?\n”, “module\_stdout”: “”, “msg”: “MODULE FAILURE”, “rc”: 1}e 92 93 PLAY RECAP 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