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 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/c35ae424-1d2d-4e4c-a6aa-b5f64ac12bce%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/c35ae424-1d2d-4e4c-a6aa-b5f64ac12bce%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgy1urkd4qq4GM_2_vQmfUuOoQ%2BHm5tqh19nChYDQ9Km%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
