yum state=absent leads to "you need to be root to perform this command"

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Hi - I’m new to Ansible and struggling

I have 2 playbooks for training/demo purposes. One to install Tree and Nano and another to remove them again. My control and destination servers are both Centos7

My webservers_latest.yml playbook for installing is…

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I should add that this is Ansible 1.9.4

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can you run both with -vvvv to see what Ansible is doing? also show
the command line invocation of both playbooks.

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Hi Brian

from /etc/ansible I am running ansible-playbook webservers_absent.yml

with -vvvv I get

SUDO password:

PLAY [webservers] *************************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
<myuser@ipaddress> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: myuser
<myuser@ipaddress> REMOTE_MODULE setup
<myuser@ipaddress> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath=“/home/myuser/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r” -o IdentityFile=“/home/myuser/.ssh/id_rsa” -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 /bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847308.18-48037085136110 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847308.18-48037085136110 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847308.18-48037085136110’
<myuser@ipaddress> PUT /tmp/tmp4cBgiH TO /home/myuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847308.18-48037085136110/setup
<myuser@ipaddress> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath=“/home/myuser/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r” -o IdentityFile=“/home/myuser/.ssh/id_rsa” -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 /bin/sh -c ‘LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C /usr/bin/python /home/myuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847308.18-48037085136110/setup; rm -rf /home/myuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847308.18-48037085136110/ >/dev/null 2>&1’
ok: [myuser@ipaddress]

TASK: [ensure tree is absent] *************************************************
<myuser@ipaddress> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: myuser
<myuser@ipaddress> REMOTE_MODULE yum name=tree state=absent
<myuser@ipaddress> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath=“/home/myuser/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r” -o IdentityFile=“/home/myuser/.ssh/id_rsa” -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 /bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847335.31-110782753766308 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847335.31-110782753766308 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847335.31-110782753766308’
myuser@ipaddress PUT /tmp/tmpXyPW7R TO /home/myuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847335.31-110782753766308/yum
<myuser@ipaddress> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath=“/home/myuser/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r” -o IdentityFile=“/home/myuser/.ssh/id_rsa” -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 /bin/sh -c ‘LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C /usr/bin/python -tt /home/myuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847335.31-110782753766308/yum; rm -rf /home/myuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1452847335.31-110782753766308/ >/dev/null 2>&1’
failed: [myuser@ipaddress] => {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “rc”: 1, “results”: [“Loaded plugins: fastestmirror\n”]}
msg: You need to be root to perform this command.

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @/home/myuser/webservers_absent.retry

myuser@ipaddress : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1

myuser and ipaddress are redacted
Regards
Paul

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how are you telling it to prompt for passwords? where are you setting
it to use sudo?
note that prompting for sudo password does NOT imply sudo will be used.

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Run with -K option as per man page. This will prompt you for sudo password.

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you probably want “sudo: yes” above the tasks … ?

Alex

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Hi - this resolved it and makes sense but I don’t understand why I didn’t need this line in my install script

It was only a demo so I won’t be spending any more time on it

thanks all

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You are awesome ! After about half a day of search this one solved it !

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Hi paul - What is the solution ?

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As per previous post

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Enable below parameters in ansible.cfg and then try

vi /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

[defaults]
inventory=hosts(file)
[privilege_escalation]
become=True
become_method=sudo
become_user=root
become_ask_pass=False