Thank you so much to both of you :) The fact is that I started doubting about this basic concept when I tried to create a new USER4 in the managed host, and I faced several troubles to connect as USER4 (remote_user). Despite of exchanging the SSH Pub Keys I still facing the PERMISSION DENIED error, but this belongs to another thread...
Thank you! El lunes, 7 de octubre de 2019, 18:00:51 (UTC+2), Vicente Domínguez escribió: > > I am sure that this is probably a silly question, but It's the basis for > the preparation for Ansible certification exam. I have troubles with the > understanding of the Ansible remote_user. > > > Let's imagine that you have a control node and a managed host to perform > some action, the users in both nodes are as follows: > > > Control node --> ROOT, User1 , User2, User3 > > Managed Host --> ROOT, User3 > > > So, if you are logged as ROOT in the control node, and you execute a > playbook to perform some action in the managed host, and you use the key > words REMOTE_USER = User3, are you using your control's node User3 to > perform the action within the managed host? OR are you loginng as managed > host's User3 to perform the action? > > > Hope you can help me.. as I was not able to find anything clear in the > documentation. > > > Thank you in advance!!!! > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/15f29c20-f601-4f92-b377-ebce0a12f5af%40googlegroups.com.
