Thank you Greg and Michael.

That was the whole solution to the problem.

On Monday, 11 August 2014 14:28:25 UTC+2, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> Ansible contains some fuzzy logic for this.
>
> Basically, if the number is a string, it will assume octal.
>
> If you pass in a decimal, as you have done above, it will assume you know 
> what you are doing.  (Most people use short-form arguments in Ansible, here 
> you've split to another line and passed a decimal - which is fine).
>
> So yes, this would be it.
>
> Alternatively, this would also fit:
>
> mode: "777"
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Greg Andrews <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>>
>> There's no leading "0" on your mode number 2770.  In Perl, the run-time 
>> parses numbers as decimal unless they have certain hint prefixes, like "0x" 
>> for hexadecimal and "0" for octal.
>>
>> I don't know how Python parses numbers, but 2770 decimal = 5322 octal, so 
>> it looks like that may be the source of the confusion.  The ansible.com 
>> docs for the file module don't address this explicitly, but both the 
>> examples have a leading "0" in the mode number.  It looks to me like a mode 
>> number of "02770" is what you need.
>>
>>   -Greg
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Deon Bredenhann <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> - name: Create test
>>>   file:
>>>     path: /srv/test
>>>     state: directory
>>>     mode: 2770
>>>     owner: root
>>>     group: admin
>>>
>>> Output of -v
>>> {"changed": true, "gid": 6003, "group": "admin", "mode": "05322", 
>>> "owner": "root", "path": "/srv/test", "size": 4096, "state": "directory", 
>>> "uid": 0}
>>>
>>> So the mode of 2770 somehow gets converted to 05322
>>>
>>> So any mode with SetGID, SetUID or SetSticky, gets mangled.
>>> Tried in 1.6 and 1.7
>>>
>>> 1770 -> 03352
>>> 2770 -> 05322
>>> 4770 -> 01242
>>>
>>> I should convert the end permissions to octal and see if there is a 
>>> pattern. Will do later. Just want to post this for now and see if someone 
>>> knows anything about this.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Deon
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