# What privilege required for an ansible user able to configure a server **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** ubuntu\ **Created:** [August 13, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-privilege-required-for-an-ansible-user-able-to-configure-a-server/33604 "2020-08-13T12:30:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Edison\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Edison\_Wang](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Edison_Wang)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-privilege-required-for-an-ansible-user-able-to-configure-a-server/33604/1 "2020-08-13T12:30:32Z")
Hi There, I am pretty new in this domain and got a question to ask. My goal is to create a new user “edison” on a Ubuntu server. Now I’ve already had a user “manager” which is able to ssh to this Ubuntu server. This problem I got is after I run user creation role with user “manager” as ansbile\_user, the new user “edison” always failed to be created. Role is very simple, my question is if this issue would be caused by ansible\_user “manager” that doesn’t have some privilege? role: | | ---
**Author:** ![Luca\_remix\_tj\_Lorenz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@Luca\_remix\_tj\_Lorenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Luca_remix_tj_Lorenz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-privilege-required-for-an-ansible-user-able-to-configure-a-server/33604/2 "2020-08-13T12:35:47Z")
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**Author:** ![racke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/racke/32/4767_2.png) [@racke](https://forum.ansible.com/u/racke)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-privilege-required-for-an-ansible-user-able-to-configure-a-server/33604/3 "2020-08-13T12:36:05Z")
> Hi There, > > I am pretty new in this domain and got a question to ask. My goal is to create a new user "edison" on a Ubuntu server. > Now I've already had a user "manager" which is able to ssh to this Ubuntu server. This problem I got is after I run user > creation role with user "manager" as ansbile\_user, the new user "edison" always failed to be created. Role is very > simple, my question is if this issue would be caused by ansible\_user "manager" that doesn't have some privilege? That is the most likely cause of the error which you failed to post here. Add "become: yes" to your playbook (or to this task). Regards       Racke ---
**Author:** ![Edison\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Edison\_Wang](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Edison_Wang)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-privilege-required-for-an-ansible-user-able-to-configure-a-server/33604/4 "2020-08-13T15:33:16Z")
Hi Luca: I’ve added that command become: yes like you and Stefan said, and make my playbook as simple as below for a test. But after I run this playbook where I didn’t see any error, I still couldn’t see the new user “edison” created on target server. However if I run this playbook on my ansible control node, I can see the user "edison’’ created. The control node can login target server with ansbile\_user “manager”. Did I miss any part? ---
**Author:** ![racke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/racke/32/4767_2.png) [@racke](https://forum.ansible.com/u/racke)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-privilege-required-for-an-ansible-user-able-to-configure-a-server/33604/5 "2020-08-13T17:37:26Z")
> Hi Luca: > > I've added that command become: yes like you and Stefan said, and make my playbook as simple as below for a test. But > after I run this playbook where I didn't see any error, I still couldn't see the new user "edison" created on target > server. However if I run this playbook on my ansible control node, I can see the user "edison'' created. The control > node can login target server with ansbile\_user "manager". Did I miss any part? > > --- > - hosts: all > become: yes > tasks: > - name: add a new user > user: > name: it-manager > password: '$6$0r6COc71MvA$EGPPq9Tfq.BTNix2jWyDojB8qyFtKvSKiuXxCE4VRU4kiC5cgHvMwGklWxugfjUCYcc8hg2Sew1nIRMIcMgrB1' > shell: /bin/bash > state: present > groups: sudo That playbook is creating a user with username it-manager. Regards           Racke