Welp, I think the issue was related to my editor. I was using pycharm. It 
must have formatted the file somehow, cause I deleted the file then opened 
it in vim and pasted the same line. It worked

On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 12:58:03 AM UTC-5, Tyler K wrote:
>
> I have a task that is supposed to use a template to create a sudoers.d 
> file and validate it. When the play runs it fails because of the 
> validation. But when I create the file without validation and then validate 
> the file myself it passes. In the template it uses variables to populate 
> part of the sudoers file. I have a feeling it is related to these 
> variables. But, when I removed the validate it populates the file correctly 
> using those variables. I am attaching the error, task and template.
>
> error:
> visudo: >>> /home/vagrant/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1503552876.43-
> 124832201376320/source: syntax error near line 1 <<<
>
> template:
>
> dd-agent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:{{ ddagent_sudo_commands | join(',') }}
>
>
> task with variables:
> - name: Add DataDog Agent Sudoers
>   template:
>     src: etc/sudoers.d/ddagent.j2
>     dest: /etc/sudoers.d/ddagent
>     group: root
>     owner: root
>     mode: '0440'
>     validate: '/usr/sbin/visudo -cf %s'
>   when: ddagent_sudo_commands | default(None) != None
>
>
> playbook:
> - name: Deploy DataDog Raid Checks
>   hosts: myhosts
>   become: yes
>   vars:
>     - ddagent_sudo_commands:
>       - '/etc/dd-agent/checks.d/megarc.bin'
>       - '/usr/sbin/mpt-status'
>   roles:
>     - common
>     - Datadog.datadog
>     - cccom-datadog-checks
>
>

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