sudo not working

I’m running ansible 1.8.2. My local machine is running OSX 10.7.5. The remote machine I’m trying to manage is running Ubuntu 14.04.

I have one host in my inventory file. My playbook is:

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I’ve tracked down what was causing this, and opened a bug on it.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9813

Replied on the ticket.

I’m sympathetic to the problem but we really do want this on by default.

I’m definitely open to creative solutions.