*I got it reoslved by using a different user. running packer under root
will not escalate the privilege to root. not sure if it's a bug
or something. *

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 3:37 PM Jason Yu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here is the output with --vvv option:
>
>
>    amazon-ebs: TASK [Remove AWS RHUI repos]
> ***************************************************
>     amazon-ebs: failed: [default] (item=/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo)
> => {"changed": false, "gid": 0, "group": "root", "item":
> "/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo", "mode": "0644", "msg": "unlinking
> failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo'
> ", "owner": "root", "path": "/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo",
> "secontext": "system_u:object_r:system_conf_t:s0", "size": 8679, "state":
> "file", "uid": 0}
>     amazon-ebs: failed: [default]
> (item=/etc/yum.repos.d/rhui-load-balancers.conf) => {"changed": false,
> "gid": 0, "group": "root", "item":
> "/etc/yum.repos.d/rhui-load-balancers.conf", "mode": "0644", "msg":
> "unlinking failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/etc/yum.repos.d/rhui-load-balancers.conf' ", "owner": "root", "path":
> "/etc/yum.repos.d/rhui-load-balancers.conf", "secontext":
> "system_u:object_r:system_conf_t:s0", "size": 80, "state": "file", "uid": 0}
>     amazon-ebs: failed: [default]
> (item=/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui-client-config.repo) => {"changed":
> false, "gid": 0, "group": "root", "item":
> "/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui-client-config.repo", "mode": "0644", "msg":
> "unlinking failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui-client-config.repo' ", "owner": "root",
> "path": "/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui-client-config.repo", "secontext":
> "system_u:object_r:system_conf_t:s0", "size": 607, "state": "file", "uid":
> 0}
>     amazon-ebs: failed: [default]
> (item=/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/amazon-id.conf) => {"changed": false, "gid": 0,
> "group": "root", "item": "/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/amazon-id.conf", "mode":
> "0644", "msg": "unlinking failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/amazon-id.conf' ", "owner": "root", "path":
> "/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/amazon-id.conf", "secontext":
> "system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0", "size": 17, "state": "file", "uid": 0}
>     amazon-ebs: failed: [default]
> (item=/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhui-lb.conf) => {"changed": false, "gid": 0,
> "group": "root", "item": "/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhui-lb.conf", "mode":
> "0644", "msg": "unlinking failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhui-lb.conf' ", "owner": "root", "path":
> "/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhui-lb.conf", "secontext":
> "system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0", "size": 74, "state": "file", "uid": 0}
>     amazon-ebs:         to retry, use: --limit
> @/workdir/Ansible/playbooks/common/Configure_Base_Linux.retry
>     amazon-ebs:
>     amazon-ebs: PLAY RECAP
> *********************************************************************
>     amazon-ebs: default                    : ok=6    changed=3
> unreachable=0    failed=1
>     amazon-ebs:
> ==> amazon-ebs: Terminating the source AWS instance...
> ==> amazon-ebs: Cleaning up any extra volumes...
> ==> amazon-ebs: No volumes to clean up, skipping
> ==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary security group...
> ==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary keypair...
> Build 'amazon-ebs' errored: Error executing Ansible: Non-zero exit status:
> exit status 2
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 3:28:09 PM UTC-8, Jason Yu wrote:
>>
>> Dear Ansible Gurus and friends:
>>
>> I have the following ansible script to remove the default AWS repos on an
>> new created RHEL ec2 instance from Packer.
>>
>> It works well untill the "Remove AWS RHUI repos" module. For some reason,
>> the privilege escalation doesn't work for this native file module. However,
>> if I use the command module with a sudo command, it works fine as  " sudo
>> rm -rf /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo"
>>
>> I could not figure out why it behaves like this. Could anyone help me
>> with this ? I have been stucked here for a few days for deliver this Packer
>> script with ansible calls.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> - name: Configure BASE Linux Servers
>> hosts: linux
>> gather_facts: true
>> become: yes
>> become_user: root
>> become_method: su
>> pre_tasks:
>> - name: Debug
>> raw: sleep 1
>> - name: get the username running the deploy
>> become: false
>> local_action: command whoami
>> register: username_on_the_host
>> - debug: var=username_on_the_host
>>
>> - name: Show /etc/ssh/sshd_config file content
>> command: sudo cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>> register: cat
>> become: yes
>> become_method: su
>> become_user: root
>> - debug: var=cat.stdout_lines
>>
>> - name: Remove AWS RHUI repos
>> file:
>> path: "{{ item }}"
>> state: absent
>> force: yes
>> with_items:
>> - /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo
>> - /etc/yum.repos.d/rhui-load-balancers.conf
>> - /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui-client-config.repo
>> - /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/amazon-id.conf
>> - /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhui-lb.conf
>>
>>
>> roles:
>> - { role: linux_common, tags: linux_common }
>> - { role: deep_security_agent, tags: deep_security_agent }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The error is like below:
>>
>>    amazon-ebs: TASK [Remove AWS RHUI repos]
>> ***************************************************
>>     amazon-ebs: failed: [default]
>> (item=/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo) => {"changed": false, "gid": 0,
>> "group": "root", "item": "/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo", "mode":
>> "0644", "msg": "unlinking failed: *[Errno 13] **Permission denied:
>> '/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo' ", *"owner": "root", "path":
>> "/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo", "secontext":
>> "system_u:object_r:system_conf_t:s0", "size": 8679, "state": "file", "uid":
>> 0}
>>     amazon-ebs: failed: [default]
>> (item=/etc/yum.repos.d/rhui-load-balancers.conf) => {"changed": false,
>> "gid": 0, "group": "root", "item":
>> "/etc/yum.repos.d/rhui-load-balancers.conf", "mode": "0644", "msg":
>> "unlinking failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>> '/etc/yum.repos.d/rhui-load-balancers.conf' ", "owner": "root", "path":
>> "/etc/yum.repos.d/rhui-load-balancers.conf", "secontext":
>> "system_u:object_r:system_conf_t:s0", "size": 80, "state": "file", "uid": 0}
>>     amazon-ebs: failed: [default]
>> (item=/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui-client-config.repo) => {"changed":
>> false, "gid": 0, "group": "root", "item":
>> "/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui-client-config.repo", "mode": "0644", "msg":
>> "unlinking failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>> '/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui-client-config.repo' ", "owner": "root",
>> "path": "/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui-client-config.repo", "secontext":
>> "system_u:object_r:system_conf_t:s0", "size": 607, "state": "file", "uid":
>> 0}
>>     amazon-ebs: failed: [default]
>> (item=/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/amazon-id.conf) => {"changed": false, "gid": 0,
>> "group": "root", "item": "/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/amazon-id.conf", "mode":
>> "0644", "msg": "unlinking failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>> '/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/amazon-id.conf' ", "owner": "root", "path":
>> "/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/amazon-id.conf", "secontext":
>> "system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0", "size": 17, "state": "file", "uid": 0}
>>     amazon-ebs: failed: [default]
>> (item=/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhui-lb.conf) => {"changed": false, "gid": 0,
>> "group": "root", "item": "/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhui-lb.conf", "mode":
>> "0644", "msg": "unlinking failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>> '/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhui-lb.conf' ", "owner": "root", "path":
>> "/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhui-lb.conf", "secontext":
>> "system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0", "size": 74, "state": "file", "uid": 0}
>>     amazon-ebs:         to retry, use: --limit
>> @/workdir/Ansible/playbooks/common/Configure_Base_Linux.retry
>>     amazon-ebs:
>>     amazon-ebs: PLAY RECAP
>> *********************************************************************
>>     amazon-ebs: default                    : ok=6    changed=3
>> unreachable=0    failed=1
>>     amazon-ebs:
>> ==> amazon-ebs: Terminating the source AWS instance...
>> ==> amazon-ebs: Cleaning up any extra volumes...
>> ==> amazon-ebs: No volumes to clean up, skipping
>> ==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary security group...
>> ==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary keypair...
>> Build 'amazon-ebs' errored: Error executing Ansible: Non-zero exit
>> status: exit status 2
>>
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                              *Jason Yu* | *Development Operations Engineer*
| Avery Products
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