Hi Chaz,
On 1/14/19 11:02 AM, Chaz_E wrote:
I like the idea of this suggestion.
Is local-facts-facts-d
<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html#local-facts-facts-d> usable
as Non-Root?
They come up as part of the dictionary returned by the setup module
as*ansible_local,* so yes.
Can facts be loaded from the user's $HOME/.ansible/ , like
$HOME/.ansible/facts.d or something like that?
I see for windows there is fact_path does that work for Linux?
Reading
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/intro_configuration.html#fact-path
it has precisely that use case (a user's HOME). I don't see that it
should not work for Linux. You should try it on a host and see.
Now, back to what you're trying to do. Your variable file is almost an
INI file, it just needs a section.
I was curious, so I tried something like what you're trying to do:
[root@gladys facts.d]# pwd
*/etc/ansible/facts.d*
[root@gladys facts.d]# ls -l
total 4***-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 106 Jan 14 18:47 factfile.fact*
[root@gladys facts.d]# cat factfile.fact
*#!/bin/bash****# An ini file must have a section****echo '[general]'****cat
/home/management/thishasvariables.txt*
[root@gladys facts.d]# ls -l /home/management/thishasvariables.txt***-rw-r--r--. 1 management management 11 Jan 14 18:48
/home/management/thishasvariables.txt*
[root@gladys facts.d]# cat /home/management/thishasvariables.txt
*spam=eggs*
my_user@mybox:~$ ansible -u management -i 'gladys, ' all -m setup -a
"filter=ansible_local"
*gladys | SUCCESS => {****"ansible_facts": {****"ansible_local": {****"factfile": {****"general":
{****"spam": "eggs"****}****}****}****}, ****"changed": false****}*
This works. Whether it is secure or not, that's a different matter, it does
take a user-supplied file and present it as facts for the host.
Cheers,
Hugo
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