Hi Tim,

I am a newbee to Ansible and I am facing the same problem. Did you resolve 
this?

Regards
Deepak

On Monday, 21 March 2016 08:24:46 UTC+5:30, TJG wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> I very much appreciate your attention.
>
> When I run "sudo systemctl restart httpd" directly, when logged in as my 
> 'apps' user, I am not prompted for a password.
>
> Bizarre, eh?
>
> My guess is my httpd configuration... perhaps how Ansible is telling it 
> to restart or how it's choosing to restart. I'll play with its service 
> config and report back.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> On Sunday, March 20, 2016, John Favorite <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> 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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