Hi Chris, are you specifying the remote_user value, or does the current
user running Ansible on the controller match the remote user on the target
system?

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Can someone give me some pointers as to why an ansible role using
> sudo_user below would complain about *missing sudo passwords, when I'm
> able to: *
>
>
>    1. *ssh in as one non-root user (in this case, chris)*
>    2. *use `sudo su deploy_user` to switch to that deploy user*
>    3. *call `sudo ls` to run a command with sudo, without needing to
>    provide a password*
>
>
> I'm using Ansible 1.8.2, and deploying to an Ubuntu machine on Google
> Cloud Platform, and below is the relevant task I'm trying to run as well as
> my sudoers file.
>
> If I want to log in with one non-root user, then run other commands as a
> deploy user, how else should I be doing this?
>
> The best workaround I can think of at present is to execute the tasks as a
> login user, but make sure I set the owner and group as extra parameters for
> `file` or `template` tasks.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
> tasks.yml
> ```
> - name: put envdirs directory in place
>   file: >
>     path=~/path/to/envdir/
>     state=directory
>     mode=775
>   sudo: yes
>   sudo_user: "{{ deploy_user }}"
>   tags:
>     - debug
>
> - name: drop envdir vars in directory
>   template: >
>     src=envdir_var.j2
>     dest=~/path/to/envdir//{{ item.env_var }}
>   with_items:
>     - { env_var: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, env_val: "{{ aws_access_key }}" }
>     - { env_var: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, env_val: "{{ aws_secret_key }}" }
>     - { env_var: AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, env_val: "{{ aws_region }}" }
>     - { env_var: PGUSER, env_val: "{{ app }}" }
>     - { env_var: PGPASSWORD, env_val: "{{ app }}" }
>   sudo: yes
>   sudo_user: "{{ deploy_user }}"
> ```
>
> sudoers
>
> ```
>
>
> # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
> #
> # Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
> # directly modifying this file.
> #
> # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
> #
> Defaults        env_reset
> Defaults        mail_badpass
> Defaults        
> secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
>
> # Host alias specification
>
> # User alias specification
>
> # Cmnd alias specification
>
> # User privilege specification
> root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>
> # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
> %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
> %sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>
> # See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:
>
> #includedir /etc/sudoers.d
> chris ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
>
> # this gives more access than I'd like to deploy_user, but ansible is
> # still bitching about the deploy_user not having a sudo password
> deploy_user ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
> ```
>
>
>
> Full gist - https://gist.github.com/mrchrisadams/56ca925a3df414cd36f0
>
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