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" <[email protected] <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" <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> 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 [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/7926b85b-dcf4-4adf-a3db-a832117c1135%40googlegroups.com.
