No, do not have root, but I do have sudo access that allows me to chown of /etc
On Friday, July 28, 2017 at 8:35:30 AM UTC-4, Fayad wrote: > > Changing ownership of /etc is not a proper way. So you have root access?? > > Fayad > > Sent from my OnePlus One > > On 22-Jul-2017 5:37 PM, "Yuriy Buha" <pione...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Hi Fayad. >> >> Thank you for the quick reply. >> I tried to create the file in user's home directory, and then move to the >> /etc, but then i would get a permission error moving the file to that >> directory. >> It worked after i changed the ownership of /etc from root to the user, >> but i'm not sure if that's a proper way to do. Is it ok for the /etc >> directory to be owned by the user but not root? >> >> thank you >> >> On Friday, July 21, 2017 at 9:38:49 AM UTC-4, Fayad wrote: >>> >>> Try these options >>> >>> Copy the file to the sudo user's home directory or any other directory >>> where the user has got permission. >>> >>> Or >>> >>> Increase the permissions of the destination directory so that user can >>> write into that directory. >>> >>> >>> >>> Fayad >>> >>> Sent from my OnePlus One >>> >>> On 21-Jul-2017 6:33 PM, "Yuriy Buha" <pione...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello. >>>> >>>> I have similar case, and i get this error, but i do need to create it >>>> as sudo user. I do not have root privilege. >>>> Can someone please advise? >>>> >>>> Thank you >>>> >>>> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 11:44:08 AM UTC-4, Kai Stian Olstad wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 06. May 2016 14:46, Sanjay Kumar wrote: >>>>> > I am not able copy to remote host, getting not writable error, my >>>>> playbook >>>>> > is here. >>>>> > >>>>> > --- >>>>> > - hosts: all >>>>> > become: yes >>>>> > become_user: sanjay >>>>> > become_method: sudo >>>>> > tasks: >>>>> > - name: copy some file >>>>> > copy: src=/home/sanjay/messages dest=/etc >>>>> >>>>> become_user: sanjay, means Ansible will do a sudo to user sanjay. So >>>>> sanjay need permission to the destination. >>>>> >>>>> I guess what you really want is become_user: root , which is the >>>>> default. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Kai Stian Olstad >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to ansible...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/d2d870d5-5ff6-4503-9096-0e4a183ae6eb%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/d2d870d5-5ff6-4503-9096-0e4a183ae6eb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ansible...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to ansible...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/78612bcc-e25c-4ee5-9dd0-d5e833a3a696%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/78612bcc-e25c-4ee5-9dd0-d5e833a3a696%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/7926b85b-dcf4-4adf-a3db-a832117c1135%40googlegroups.com.
