Thanks Matt. Appreciate your help and time. So I tried the command which you posted, still no success.
*ansible all --inventory-file=inv_my.yaml -m setup -u cafe3 --ask-pass --ask-sudo-pass --sudo -vv* SSH password: sudo password [defaults to SSH password]: <vcac148-085-217.eng.vmware.com> REMOTE_MODULE setup vcac148-085-217.eng.vmware.com | FAILED => SSH encountered an unknown error during the connection. We recommend you re-run the command using -vvvv, which will enable SSH debugging output to help diagnose the issue Please help me figure the problem with my usage or a workaround here. Thanks, Dhruvin Shah On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 4:50:04 PM UTC-8, Matt Martz wrote: > > I believe you have some of your options a little backwards. > > You specified that you cannot login as root, however '-u root' specifies > that you are attempting to connect via the root user. > > You probably want: > > ansible all --inventory-file=inv_my.yaml -m setup -u cafe3 --ask-pass > --ask-sudo-pass > --sudo > > A few additional things: > > 1. --sudo-user=cafe3 will tell ansible that you want to run the sudo > commands as cafe3, you instead wants this to be 'root' > 2. The default for --sudo-user is root so you can actually just leave that > off > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Dhruvin Shah <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I have a situation where, we need to disable the "root" user. and need to >> make configuration changes to linux servers using a regular(cafe3) user >> *which >> has sudo privileges.* >> To achieve that, I am ssh in to server using "cafe3" using ansible, and >> mentioning the --sudo flag while executing it. >> >> *Ansible-Attempt-1:* >> ~>ansible all --inventory-file=inv_my.yaml -m setup -u root --ask-pass >> *--sudo-user=root* --ask-sudo-pass --sudo >> SSH password: >> sudo password [defaults to SSH password]: >> vcac148-085-217.eng.vmware.com | FAILED => Authentication failure. >> >> *Ansible-Attempt-2:* >> ~>ansible all --inventory-file=inv_my.yaml -m setup -u root --ask-pass >> *--sudo-user=cafe3* --ask-sudo-pass --sudo >> SSH password: >> sudo password [defaults to SSH password]: >> vcac148-085-217.eng.vmware.com | FAILED => Authentication failure. >> >> *Manual attempt-3:* >> If I ssh in to server using user as cafe3, and try to run command like >> "sudo ls". It works fine. >> It does ask me for sudo password and I provided the same password as I >> did in attempt-1 and attempt-2 above. >> >> Please help. Thanks in advance. >> - Dhruvin Shah >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/dd3cc010-d972-424f-8ce8-8506b935b91f%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/dd3cc010-d972-424f-8ce8-8506b935b91f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Matt Martz > @sivel > sivel.net > -- 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/77f8343a-c242-438e-be0f-9633754abedd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
