When I run the playbook on the local computer against the target server, I get a very long error telling me the setup module failed.
$ ansible-playbook -i "server.fqdn," playbooks/server_build.yml -K --ask- pass --check -vvvvv > SSH: EXEC sshpass -d12 ssh -C -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o User=gforster -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/gforster/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -tt server.fqdn '/bin/sh -c '"'"'su root -c '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'/bin/sh -c '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-iuykodnbbajmkfusbtcqazxumkvvkrbu; LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /idm/idmt_home/home/gforster/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1469029304.83-260550837256467/setup; rm -rf "/home/gforster/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1469029304.83-260550837256467/" > /dev/null 2>&1'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"''"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"' && sleep 0'"'"'' fatal: [server.fqdn]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "invocation": {"module_name": "setup"}, "module_stderr": "OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu1, OpenSSL 1.0.2g-fips 1 Mar 2016\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4\r\ndebug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 11840\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\ndebug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2\r\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 1\r\nShared connection to server.fqdn closed.\r\n", "module_stdout": "\r\nsu: Permission denied\r\n", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "parsed": false} And when i run the playbook on the target host itself, I get this error: > ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local playbooks/server_build.yml -K -b --check fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "module_stderr": "su: Permission denied\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "parsed": false} I'm not sure where the permission is denied. In the script, I have become root, so I would think it would run correctly. Any ideas what's gone wrong? Is it me or something with ansible -- 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/50a945de-4244-4c41-bcb6-5ff84ca4bca5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.