# sudo not working

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-not-working/17053>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [December 14, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-not-working/17053 "2014-12-14T21:26:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Roy\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e495f1/32.png) [@Roy\_Smith](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Roy_Smith)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-not-working/17053/1 "2014-12-14T21:26:57Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Roy\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e495f1/32.png) [@Roy\_Smith](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Roy_Smith)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-not-working/17053/2 "2014-12-15T13:19:06Z")

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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](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9813)

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-not-working/17053/3 "2014-12-15T13:36:44Z")

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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.