On Friday, April 25, 2014 at 11:32:07 AM UTC-7, Jacob Weber wrote:
>
> I'm using the "template" task to modify a file that I own, and have write 
> permissions on. I'm not using sudo; I'm just running it as my own user.
>
> But I get an error "Destination [parent-dir] not writable." I'm guessing 
> it's deleting and re-creating the file. Is there any way to avoid this, or 
> do I need to give my user write permission on the parent directory?
>
> JW
>


This is somewhat limiting to set directory to writable from 755 for 
instance to 775 so user running ansible can use template to replace file 
especially "service" startup file in /etc/init.d.  Even if my user is 
already using can "become" as root to write the file.

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