Now I have seen an issue in the Ansible github with the same problem: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/6948
It provides a patch to solve the error, but it only changes the error message. The original error was: TASK: [copy src=/tmp/root.txt dest=/tmp/pr.txt] ******************************* fatal: [158.42.104.90] => Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 532, in _executor exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 629, in _executor_internal return self._executor_internal_inner(host, self.module_name, self.module_args, inject, port, complex_args=complex_args) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 815, in _executor_internal_inner result = handler.run(conn, tmp, module_name, module_args, inject, complex_args) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/action_plugins/copy.py", line 158, in run local_md5 = utils.md5(source_full) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/utils/__init__.py", line 570, in md5 infile = open(filename, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/tmp/root.txt' The error with the patch provided in the issues is: TASK: [copy src=/tmp/root.txt dest=/tmp/pr.txt] ******************************* fatal: [158.42.104.90] => error while accessing the file /tmp/root.txt, error was: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/tmp/root.txt' -- 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/29be9f58-ba9a-4e68-8ada-d69243fe99ed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.