thats what im trying to do
---
- hosts: localhost
become: yes
gather_facts: false
vars:
filecon: "{{ lookup('file', '/home/rke/.ssh/id_rsa.pub')}}"
tasks:
- debug:
msg: "the value of foo.txt is: {{ filecon }}"
delegate_to: localhost
why is this not working?
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 7:22 AM Brian Coca <bc...@redhat.com> wrote:
> simple permissions, can you 'cat '/home/rke/.ssh/id_rsa.pub` ? you
> probably get same permissions error.
>
> You either need to run ansible-playbook as a user with permissions
> (rke, root?) or use a task to read the file while using privilege
> escalation (become):
>
> - slurp:
> path: , '/home/rke/.ssh/id_rsa.pub'
> become: yes
> delegate_to: localhost
> register: rke_pub_key
>
>
> This is the equivalent of you doing `sudo cat
> /home/rke/.ssh/id_rsa.pub' (lookups always run 'locally and are not
> affected by become, which only affects the 'remote' side of a task).
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