My setup is a vagrant box whose provisioning is provided by ansible. I have set up ssh agent forwarding from my local/host machine to the vagrant box so that the user 'vagrant' can perform `git clone` on a private bitbucket repo, which is configured to perform ssh key authentication.
To verify that the ssh agent forwarding works, I ssh'ed to the vagrant box with the user 'vagrant' and I was able to perform `git clone` on the mentioned remote repo, without setting up the required private key in the vagrant box itself. However, when ansible performs the same task via the git module it fails with "*Permission denied (publickey)"* error The play/task: - name: Set up source hosts: appserver tasks: - name: Git | Clone private repo from bitbucket git: repo="g...@bitbucket.org:someuser/somerepo.git" dest=/home/vagrant/example The verbose output for the task: TASK: [Git | Clone private repo from bitbucket] **************** <192.168.55.139> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: vagrant <192.168.55.139> REMOTE_MODULE git repo= "g...@bitbucket.org:someuser/somerepo.git" dest=/home/vagrant/example <192.168.55.139> EXEC ['ssh', '-C', '-tt', '-vvv', '-o', 'ForwardAgent=yes', '-o', 'ControlMaster=auto', '-o', 'ControlPersist=60s', '-o', 'ControlPath=/Users/windbottle/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r', '-o', 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no', '-o', 'Port=22', '-o', 'IdentityFile=/Users/windbottle/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key', '-o', 'KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no', '-o', 'PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey', '-o', 'PasswordAuthentication=no', '-o', 'User=vagrant', '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=10', '192.168.55.139', "/bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1399490355.47-128414001438969 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1399490355.47-128414001438969 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1399490355.47-128414001438969'"] <192.168.55.139> PUT /var/folders/l2/22zwjkz106vdwz1846jp7d0w0000gn/T/tmpp_JWyh TO /home/vagrant/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1399490355.47-128414001438969/git <192.168.55.139> EXEC ['ssh', '-C', '-tt', '-vvv', '-o', 'ForwardAgent=yes', '-o', 'ControlMaster=auto', '-o', 'ControlPersist=60s', '-o', 'ControlPath=/Users/windbottle/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r', '-o', 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no', '-o', 'Port=22', '-o', 'IdentityFile=/Users/windbottle/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key', '-o', 'KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no', '-o', 'PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey', '-o', 'PasswordAuthentication=no', '-o', 'User=vagrant', '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=10', '192.168.55.139', "/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python /home/vagrant/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1399490355.47-128414001438969/git; rm -rf /home/vagrant/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1399490355.47-128414001438969/ >/dev/null 2>&1'"] failed: [B612] => {"cmd": ["/usr/bin/git", "ls-remote", "g...@bitbucket.org:someuser/somerepo.git", "-h", "refs/heads/HEAD"], "failed": true, "item": "", "rc": 128} stderr: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. According to the above output, 'ForwardAgent=yes' is indeed there, so I can't comprehend why the error. Calling on experts to shed some light on this issue. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/3eb54ed6-30ca-47dd-b4dd-6396ef5bf223%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.