On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > It's totally not pointless. > > If you sudo ansible, you are running ansible as root locally. > > It sounds like you aren't managing any remote systems in your case, so > you're in a minority use case.
Yes, I am running with local connection type to manage single node from within the node itself. Like I have different protocol for remote access and it is easier for me to just upload everything there and execute ansible-playbook from checkout. > Ansible is designed around managing remote systems, where sudo'ing ansible > itself won't do you any good at all, which is why we have things like --sudo > and --ask-sudo-pass > > Ansible will work fine with your remote sudo system and feed in the password > when required when the remotes need it. > > However, you must always supply it, as Ansible doesn't want you saving your > sudo password for those remote systems in the file. Note: this may not be > the password used on the local system. I see. Still, if it is possible to hack it somehow easily for local connection type. I may spend a time to make a patch. > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:14 AM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Can Ansible check that current sudo is active? >> >> Right now it supports two modes: >> 1. Never asking password >> 2. Asking password every time >> >> On my system, after I enter sudo pass, systems stops asking for sudo >> password for other commands for a few minutes. Is it possible to implement >> the same behavior in Ansible? >> >> Right now I am executing `sudo ansible-playbook`, which makes fine-grained >> per-task `sudo:` entries somewhat pointless. >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> > CTO, AnsibleWorks, Inc. > http://www.ansibleworks.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/VkaitAL0C38/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
