If that's all you really need, invoke it via a "command" stanza with a 
passwordless sudo. Problem solved.

On Tuesday, 22 March 2016 18:46:35 UTC, Matt Calhoun wrote:
>
> Sure, except that I am running ansible on an unattended deployment box 
> (Jenkins) in this case vs real humans running interactively in the case of 
> my admins.
>
> I'm trying to follow a policy of least privilege and grant the user only 
> the rights to restart the nginx server as root (needs it to access port 
> 443) since that's the only thing the user needs to do that requires 
> privledge escalation. 
>
> I'm wondering why this can't be accomplished with ansible? It seems like 
> having to allow the deploy user to run any command (rather than just the 
> one needed to restart the service) creates a potential security hole if 
> that user's key is compromised. Am I missing something here?
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Brian Coca <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> you can use ansible + sudo + sudo password, you end up with exact same 
>> security.
>>
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