This is a good point in that the "ask pass" config setting cannot imply
sudo=True, though technically it doesn't require the command line to *NOT*
make that auto-implication, I do prefer that they are consistent in
behavior.

We try to change behavior rarely, to reduce frustration in upgrades - and
this hasn't been a major contention point in the past.



On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote:

> The problem here (which was solved by making --ask-sudo-pass not imply
> --sudo), is that many people are likely going to have 'ask_sudo_pass =
> True' in their ~/.ansible.cfg file.
>
> 'ask_sudo_pass = True' in ~/.ansible.cfg is the same as supplying
> --ask-sudo-pass/-K on the command line.
>
> So if you use 'ask_sudo_pass = True' in to prevent having to always type
> 'ansible-playbook -K', you now have no way of not running ansible ad-hoc
> commands without sudo, unless you change your ~/.ansible.cfg or override it
> using an env var.
>
> I think the current functionality is the correct functionality.
>
> Otherwise, if we want to have --ask-sudo-pass imply --sudo, we need to
> decouple the logic that makes 'ask_sudo_pass = True' the same as supplying
> --ask-sudo-pass.  But then this becomes somewhat inconsistent handling
> between config file and command line option.
>
> --
> Matt Martz
> [email protected]
>
> On May 3, 2014 at 10:49:24 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim ([email protected])
> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I was assuming you were talking about ansible-playbook, and while the
> above
> > makes sense for ansible,
>
> Right. I was aware of the difference already before submission (I know
> I'm dumb, but not that dumb!) and did understand that it should not be
> the case for 'ansible-playbook'. I thought I had made that clear as
> well. If you have any suggestions for how to make that clearer
> (rewrite subject for PR?), please let me know.
>
>
> > it doesn't make sense for ansible-playbook, and I'm
> > wondering if the two should be different.
> >
>
> Definitely not for 'ansible-playbook', true! The 2 ('ansible', vs
> 'ansible-playbook') are just naturally different use cases as we know.
>
>
> > (It might be better to make --ask-sudo-pass be an error for
> /usr/bin/ansible
> > without --sudo ?)
> >
>
> That's a possible alternative, although I'd prefer the "implies" for
> 'ansible' for convenience's sake. Others might have other thoughts on
> it, of course, but I think 2 things should be clear right now: one,
> something should be done about the current handling in 'ansible' right
> now (cos as mentioned in the PR, if you pass in '--ask-sudo-pass'
> without '--sudo', 'ansible' will wastefully / frustratingly ask for
> the password, but then never activate '--sudo'), and two, the 2
> ('ansible', and 'ansible-playbook') really are 2 different use cases,
> and I am only specifically talking about *ansible*.
>
> My thoughts on this are that if '--sudo-user' can imply '--sudo' (this
> is also *specific to 'ansible'*), '--ask-sudo-pass' should imply
> '--sudo' too. This was what prompted me to submit the patch.
>
> -jf
>
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> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> hi guys,
> >>
> >> I recently submitted a PR to the project for adding the "implies" back
> >> to the *ansible* binary (as opposed to the *ansible-playbook* binary,
> >> which is for plays containing multiple commands). The purpose for this
> >> was to have *ansible* automatically imply '--sudo' when you give it
> >> '--ask-sudo-pass', or '-K'
> >> (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/7264).
> >>
> >> `ansible` (again, as opposed to `ansible-playbook`) should only be for
> >> running just the one command; so I dont really see why this should be
> >> a problem. Am I missing something here? Does nobody think that
> >> `ansible` should assume '--sudo' when you pass it '--ask-sudo-pass'?
> >>
> >> -jf
> >>
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