Using Ansible with sudo su

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I’m trying to setup Ansible to access our infrastructure from and admin account. With not much success.

I need to login to our RedHat servers with my user “my_user”. then we need to switch to a admin user “sudo su - admin_user”

ssh my_user@server1.com (doesn't need a password)

From Server1.com

sudo su - admin_user (requires password)

thanks

--------- Tried ---------

→ Tried adding to playbook yaml file

---
- hosts: test
  become: true
  become_user: admin_user

→ Error fatal: [server1.com] => Missing become password

→ Tried adding to ansible.cfg file

[privilege_escalation]
become=True
become_method='sudo'
become_user='admin_user'
become_ask_pass=true

→ Error fatal: [server1.com] => Internal Error: this module does not support running commands via ‘sudo’

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ansible works with either sudo or su, the 'sudo su' combo does not
work (also it is not needed, sudo can specify a user).