I've worked around it for now using a set fact, but I think it would be
helpful if there was a magic variable that always contained the defined
remote user even when delegated elsewhere.
- name: Set defined login name
set_fact:
defined_user: '{{ ansible_user }}'
On Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 3:41:13 PM UTC+1 Simon Liddicott wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'd expect the following two tasks to return the same output, however the
> first task returns the user that I was running ansible-playbook as and the
> second task returns the user set with -u.
>
> I can understand why this might happen, however I need to access the -u
> username in a task that is delegated to localhost.
>
> Any ideas how I could do that?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---
> - name: debug vars
> hosts: all
> gather_facts: no
> tasks:
> - debug: var=ansible_user
> delegate_to: localhost
>
> - debug: var=ansible_user
>
>
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