Sounds like you are saying the remote_user on the task attribute is not overriding the remote_user on the host.
If you see this behavior on 1.5.3 and later, can you please check to see if you see this behavior on the development branch, and if so, file a bug? Thank you! On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Tonatiuh IIII <[email protected]> wrote: > I have the same problem, don't know why, this should be working. I would > really appreciate some help there. > > > On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:31:58 AM UTC-6, Bernat Ràfales wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a playbook in which I need to run tasks with different remote >> users. >> >> This is what the main playlist looks like: >> >> #Configure and install all we need >> - hosts: ec2hosts >> gather_facts: true >> remote_user: ec2-user >> sudo: yes >> roles: >> - common >> >> >> >> And all tasks that have to be run as ec2-user work great. >> >> However, I need to run some of the tasks with a different user, named >> rails. In order to do this, I specify the remote_user parameter in the >> task, but for some reason, the task is still executed as ec2-user: >> >> - name: rbenv // basic test >> shell: ls -lah >> remote_user: rails >> sudo: no >> tags: rbenv >> >> >> >> Resulting in this: >> TASK: [common | rbenv // basic test] ****************************** >> ************ >> <54.73.67.35> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: ec2-user >> <54.73.67.35> REMOTE_MODULE command ls -lah #USE_SHELL >> <54.73.67.35> EXEC ['ssh', '-C', '-tt', '-vvv', '-o', >> 'ControlMaster=auto', '-o', 'ControlPersist=60s', '-o', >> 'ControlPath=/Users/bernatrafalesimulet/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r' >> , '-o', 'KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no', '-o', >> 'PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex, >> hostbased,publickey', '-o', 'PasswordAuthentication=no', '-o', >> 'User=ec2-user', '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=10', u'54.73.67.35', "/bin/sh -c >> 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1395246103.49-134656247335216 >> && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1395246103.49-134656247335216 >> && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1395246103.49-134656247335216'"] >> <54.73.67.35> PUT /var/folders/mg/1txhtf2d6c1fx4mzmvp9zlbc0000gn/T/tmpcdqUUp >> TO /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1395246103.49-134656247335216/ >> command >> <54.73.67.35> EXEC ['ssh', '-C', '-tt', '-vvv', '-o', >> 'ControlMaster=auto', '-o', 'ControlPersist=60s', '-o', >> 'ControlPath=/Users/bernatrafalesimulet/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r' >> , '-o', 'KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no', '-o', >> 'PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex, >> hostbased,publickey', '-o', 'PasswordAuthentication=no', '-o', >> 'User=ec2-user', '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=10', u'54.73.67.35', "/bin/sh -c >> '/usr/bin/python >> /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1395246103.49-134656247335216/command; >> rm -rf /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1395246103.49-134656247335216/ >> >/dev/null 2>&1'"] >> changed: [54.73.67.35] => {"changed": true, "cmd": "ls -lah ", "delta": >> "0:00:00.009791", "end": "2014-03-19 16:21:53.695525", "item": "", "rc": >> 0, "start": "2014-03-19 16:21:53.685734", "stderr": "", "stdout": "total >> 28K\ndrwx------ 4 ec2-user ec2-user 4.0K Mar 19 16:21 .\ndrwxr-xr-x 4 root >> root 4.0K Mar 19 16:21 ..\ndrwxrwxr-x 3 ec2-user ec2-user 4.0K Mar >> 19 16:21 .ansible\n-rw-r--r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user 18 Sep 4 2013 >> .bash_logout\n-rw-r--r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user 176 Sep 4 2013 >> .bash_profile\n-rw-r--r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user 124 Sep 4 2013 >> .bashrc\ndrwx------ 2 ec2-user ec2-user 4.0K Feb 17 10:29 .ssh"} >> >> Which shows me the list of files of the ec2-user home folder. >> >> Is there any particular reason why I can't override the remote_user, or >> what am I doing wrong? >> >> Thanks >> > -- > 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]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f3d705d9-1cc2-43e4-9df6-1cbe7a6c387a%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f3d705d9-1cc2-43e4-9df6-1cbe7a6c387a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEVJ8QNKfmJc2fsLXKN-_8K8TmhBa_rKqB9embLb6ke_Kn7c1A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
