What happens when you run the command as that user? If it still asks for a
password either your sudoers file is an issue or user/group might be.

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016, 7:37 PM TJG <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi John;
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but nope: with that line commented out in
> sudoers (so that only the one with NOPASSWD is in effect", the error is the
> same.
>
> "Failed to stop httpd.service: Interactive authentication required."
>
> Besides, I'd have thought that the latter statement would have overridden
> the former statement anyways, in a top-to-bottom processing.
>
> So, still scratching my head...
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 5:31:39 PM UTC-4, John Favorite wrote:
>
>> comment out
>>
>> #%wheel  ALL=(ALL)       ALL
>>
>> ## Same thing without a password
>> %wheel  ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 4:11 PM, TJG <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi all;
>> >
>> > Just looking for a little help to spot what I might be missing. Against
>> a
>> > Centos 7 box, using Ansible 2.1.0, this task:
>> >
>> >  - name: restart httpd
>> >       service:
>> >         name: httpd
>> >         state: restarted
>> >
>> > is giving me an "Interactive authentication required." error when run
>> under
>> > Ansible 2.1.0 via:
>> >
>> > ansible-playbook -i inventory test.yml --sudo --ask-sudo-pass
>> > --ask-become-pass --sudo -vvvv
>> >
>> >
>> > My playbook is set with:
>> >
>> >   # The user that logs into the machine
>> >   remote_user: apps
>> >
>> >   # Indicates that we also want to be become the user we log in as, for
>> > running tasks
>> >   # (otherwise the user defaults to root)
>> >   become: yes
>> >   become_user: apps
>> >
>> >
>> > and on the Centos 7 box, my "apps" user is in the "wheel" group, and
>> the
>> > wheel group is covered with sudoer permissions as follows:
>> >
>> > ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
>> > %wheel  ALL=(ALL)       ALL
>> >
>> > ## Same thing without a password
>> > %wheel  ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
>> >
>> >
>> > I understood that with my playbook set to use "become", and
>> "become_user",
>> > that this task would run as sudo?
>> >
>> > So, why the "Interactive authentication required" error?
>> >
>> > Of course, I can resort to:
>> >
>> >     - name: Restart apache
>> >       shell: sudo systemctl restart httpd
>> >
>> >
>> > which doesn't prompt me, but I'd like to understand why the advocated
>> method
>> > isn't observing that I'm running under sudo?
>> >
>> > Many thanks,
>> > Tim
>> >
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