I'm not sure what exactly is the problem? You basically need to login as
root, create a user and than give it sudo permissions to run everything as
root. For that I would recommend that you create a playbook for
bootstrapping your server with something like this:
---- hosts: servername remote_user: root tasks: - name: create ansible
user for managing host user: name=ansible comment="Ansible User"
- name: give ansible user sudo rights lineinfile: dest=/etc/sudoers
state=present
regexp='^ansible ALL\='
line='ansible ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL'
validate='visudo -cf %s'
Than in ansible.cfg you set remote_user = ansible (so that you don't have
to set remote_user in every playbook) and in playbooks use sudo: yes, like
this:
---
- hosts: servername
sudo: yes
- tasks:
- name: ...
On Sunday, April 20, 2014 10:24:25 PM UTC+2, Daniel Charbonneau wrote:
>
> The remote machine I am logging into currently only allows me to login via
> root, but I'd like to create another user and perform configurations as
> this user. I don't know how to do this, would someone point me to a few
> resources explaining this, or if someone is willing to explain via email, I
> would appreciate this too!
>
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