# Sudo privilege escalation is not working

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-privilege-escalation-is-not-working/30414>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [May 24, 2019, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-privilege-escalation-is-not-working/30414 "2019-05-24T11:05:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Barun\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@Barun\_kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Barun_kumar)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-privilege-escalation-is-not-working/30414/1 "2019-05-24T11:05:52Z")

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Hi Team,

I am trying to run a playbook book on client machine with sudo privilege,  
Getting below error.  
where clients /etc/sudoers file are updated with "All All=!SUDOSUDO ".

Let me know how to proceed on this.

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**Author:** ![bala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/94ad74/32.png) [@bala](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bala)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-privilege-escalation-is-not-working/30414/2 "2019-05-24T11:59:29Z")

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pl try adding user in suoder

```auto
%user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/su - *
and in ansible.cfg
Use su as the become_method and also use sudo su - as become_exe

 

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-privilege-escalation-is-not-working/30414/3 "2019-05-24T13:48:10Z")

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Also, you should not be running ansible as root on the control machine.

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**Author:** ![Barun\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@Barun\_kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Barun_kumar)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sudo-privilege-escalation-is-not-working/30414/4 "2019-05-24T18:17:57Z")

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I am using root user to run ansible playbook, and I do not have access to change user sudo permission in client machine.

Any other idea?