I'm having trouble executing my script from a user with sudo access instead of root.
I'm getting "permission denied" errors when playing the playbook, but if I execute the commands manually on the server it works just fine. I did use "become" to execute the tasks with sudo and the right user. The (relevant part of the) playbook : --- - hosts: all remote_user: "{{ user }}" become: yes become_user: "{{ user }}" become_method: sudo tasks: - name: Install useful system tools apt: name={{ item }} state=present with_items: - vim - nano - htop - git - subversion - tig - ncdu - nodejs-legacy - npm - mesa-utils Ansible output : $ ansible-playbook -K -i test site.yml -vvvv SUDO password: PLAY [all] ******************************************************************** GATHERING FACTS *************************************************************** <[the server address]> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: [the user name] <[the server address]> REMOTE_MODULE setup <[the server address]> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/home/kevin/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=[the user name] -o ConnectTimeout=10 [the server address] /bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921321.94-213782579685333 && chmod a+rx /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921321.94-213782579685333 && echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921321.94-213782579685333' <[the server address]> PUT /tmp/tmpk_hOEu TO /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921321.94-213782579685333/setup <[the server address]> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/home/kevin/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=[the user name] -o ConnectTimeout=10 [the server address] /bin/sh -c 'chmod a+r /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921321.94-213782579685333/setup' <[the server address]> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/home/kevin/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=[the user name] -o ConnectTimeout=10 [the server address] /bin/sh -c 'sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p "[sudo via ansible, key=upzdhdqqnkqtecoipruvaisazfdvjubv] password: " -u [the user name] /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-upzdhdqqnkqtecoipruvaisazfdvjubv; LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C /usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921321.94-213782579685333/setup'"'"'' <[the server address]> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/home/kevin/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=[the user name] -o ConnectTimeout=10 [the server address] /bin/sh -c 'rm -rf /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921321.94-213782579685333/ >/dev/null 2>&1' ok: [[the server address]] TASK: [Install useful system tools] ******************************************* <[the server address]> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: [the user name] <[the server address]> REMOTE_MODULE apt name=vim,nano,htop,git,subversion,tig,ncdu,nodejs-legacy,npm state=present <[the server address]> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/home/kevin/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=[the user name] -o ConnectTimeout=10 [the server address] /bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921350.8-236765363664782 && chmod a+rx /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921350.8-236765363664782 && echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921350.8-236765363664782' <[the server address]> PUT /tmp/tmpTE3idg TO /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921350.8-236765363664782/apt <[the server address]> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/home/kevin/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=[the user name] -o ConnectTimeout=10 [the server address] /bin/sh -c 'chmod a+r /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921350.8-236765363664782/apt' <[the server address]> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/home/kevin/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=[the user name] -o ConnectTimeout=10 [the server address] /bin/sh -c 'sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p "[sudo via ansible, key=puwtzrscvqsbjbiqrhkjwxdxmszgeduz] password: " -u [the user name] /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-puwtzrscvqsbjbiqrhkjwxdxmszgeduz; LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C /usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921350.8-236765363664782/apt'"'"'' <[the server address]> EXEC ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/home/kevin/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=[the user name] -o ConnectTimeout=10 [the server address] /bin/sh -c 'rm -rf /tmp/ansible-tmp-1444921350.8-236765363664782/ >/dev/null 2>&1' failed: [[the server address]] => (item=vim,nano,htop,git,subversion,tig,ncdu,nodejs-legacy,npm,mesa-utils) => {"failed": true, "item": "vim,nano,htop,git,subversion,tig,ncdu,nodejs-legacy,npm,mesa-utils"} stderr: E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? msg: '/usr/bin/apt-get -y -o "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef" -o "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold" install 'htop' 'subversion' 'tig' 'ncdu' 'nodejs-legacy' 'npm' 'mesa-utils'' failed: E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting (Note : i'm still providing sudo password for other tasks that also don't work without root) Also relevant : $ ansible --version ansible 1.9.4 configured module search path = None $ ssh [the user name]@[the server address] Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.19.0-30-generic x86_64) ... [the user name]@[the server name]:~$ sudo -l Matching Defaults entries for [the user name] on [the server name]: env_reset, mail_badpass, secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin, env_keep+=SSH_AUTH_SOCK User [the user name] may run the following commands on vm02: (ALL : ALL) ALL (ALL : ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL -- 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. 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