su in ansible doesn't look like that.
Be sure you have set user appropriately, but you should use the native su
or sudo constructs. sudo is preferred, but su works as well.
---
- hosts: host1
su: True
su_user: user1
tasks:
- name: run ls -l
shell: "ls -l"
There's various reasons for the machinery, but a lot of it has do how
modules are transferred.
In Ansible, you should avoid interactive commands, and you'll probably need
to specify --ask-su-pass or --ask-sudo-pass as appropriate.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:16 AM, weichi cheng <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just go through a few tutorials of Ansible and am trying to see if I can
> use it to replace our 'tcl expect' template engine in house.
>
> We have an internal server inside a isolated domain that have 'root'
> access to most of the internal boxes from other domains.
> The template engine's job is to execute commands supplied in a file and
> run as uid that will be input to the template engine also. The template
> engine either successfully run all commands or stop at the first failed
> command and return error and output.
>
> a simple test like below hang forever.
>
> ---
> - hosts: host1
> user: root
> tasks:
> - name: run as user1 on host1 and with ls -l
> shell: "su - user1; ls -l"
>
>
> Is this kind of task achievable?
>
> Thanks for any insight!
> Jack Cheng
>
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