Hi Prady,
You are running the playbook as root that is why the playbook is returning
'root'. If you need a particular user then you may want to run the playbook
using that user.
For example -
```
# whoami
akasurde
# ansible-playbook user.yml -v
PLAY [localhost]
*************************************************************************
TASK [debug]
*****************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "akasurde"
}
TASK [command]
***************************************************************************
changed: [localhost] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["who", "am", "I"],
"delta": "0:00:00.009702", "end": "2023-07-28 20:48:00.637555", "msg": "",
"rc": 0, "start": "2023-07-28 20:48:00.627853", "stderr": "",
"stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "akasurde 28 Jul 20:48
", "stdout_lines": ["akasurde 28 Jul 20:48 "]}
PLAY RECAP
*******************************************************************************
localhost : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
```
You can use become and become_user for escalating the privileges mentioned
in
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_privilege_escalation.html#become-directives
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 8:04 PM Prady A <pradyumna....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I searched a quite but could able to find what I wanted
> Could any pls suggest me how to get the Username in the host machine. In
> Linux if I run the below command I get what I suppose to get but don’t know
> how to do it ansible. Any code Ansible or python would be helpful
>
> Fin Linux:
> *X1234@hostname$*su -
> *root@hostname#*who am i
> x1234 pts/2 2023-07-29 (vxj-...@domain.com)
>
> My *getuser.yml*:
> - debug: {{ lookup(‘env’, ‘USER’) }}
> delegate_to: localhost
>
> - local_action: command whoami
> register: user_name
>
> *root@hostname#* ansible-playbook getuser.yml
> Both returning me *root*. I wanted to have *X1234* user instead. I want
> use that user ID in my from address in mail module. Any insight would be
> very helpfu.
>
> Regards
>
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