Nope. Ansible uses sudo to elevate privileges on Linux. If you don't have a service account that can sudo, you can't do this with ansible. Your service account is the "remote_user" that ansible uses to SSH into the machine. The sudoers file must grant this account sudo rights.
It does not have to be passwordless sudo. You can provide a variable ansible_become_password that contains the sudo password. There are many ways to do that. The most secure way would be an ansible vault. This is essentially an encrypted vars file. You provide the vault secret when you run the playbook. On your command line you would do something like this. $ ansible-playbook my_playbook.yml -e @my_vault.yml --ask-vault-pass The @my_vault.yml tells ansible-playbook to source the my_vault.yml for its extra_vars. The --ask-vault-pass prompts you for the vault secret. Your my_vault.yml file would look like this: --- ansible_become_password: "my sudo password" If you use Ansible Tower you can provide the vault secret in an Ansible Vault Credential type. We use this method also for storing privileged Kerberos credentials that enables our playbooks to join machines to Active Directory. Walter -- Walter Rowe, Division Chief Infrastructure Services, OISM Mobile: 202.355.4123 On Sep 1, 2022, at 1:15 AM, dulhaver via Ansible Project <ansible-project@googlegroups.com<mailto:ansible-project@googlegroups.com>> wrote: I need to create a postgresql@[db_service_name].service for systemd on remote hosts. Based on extremely limited access rights on such hosts (due to strict company security policies) the challenge I am facing is that the only way to do this manually is via sudo systemctl edit --full postgresql@[db_service_name].service This allows to edit a unitfile interactively which then is used to start the service. I do not have any direct write access to /etc/systemd/system or anything else outside /opt on such remotes. so, is there any way to get specific values into that unit file via ansible under such circumstances? -- 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<mailto:ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com<http://2Fgroups.google.com>%2Fd%2Fmsgid%2Fansible-project%2F1823518936.133081.1662009342899%2540office.mailbox.org<http://2540office.mailbox.org>&data=05%7C01%7Cwalter.rowe%40nist.gov<http://40nist.gov>%7C2c0b8a00151445d73e4508da8bd908fd%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C637976061533248124%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XpM%2B9O9POGhoWj9dE9%2Bk%2Bc9Ub0TercGjG2e1oIXZBKo%3D&reserved=0. -- 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/F19F89B1-6C1B-4F50-B2AF-8681D60E408E%40nist.gov.
