There aren't any options for sudo + su together.

Are you sure you can't just <sudo user> and skip the su'ing?





On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Ian Whitney <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been learning Ansible and have run into a behavior that causes
> problems with the server setup here at work. I'm wondering if there's a way
> to fix it.
>
> On our server I have to run certain commands as an admin user. But I can't
> just switch users with 'su superuser'. I have to execute su with sudo. So,
> 'sudo su superuser'.
>
> If I do:
>
> ansible all -a "whoami" -R superuser
>
> Then the command hangs, as the server is asking for a password, which I do
> not have.
>
> And if I do:
>
> ansible all -a "whoami" -s -R superuser
>
> I get the error message about trying to combine sudo and su.
>
> Do I have options?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Ian
>
>
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