Thanks, I tried different possibilities including your suggestion as 
below., but it didnt work
---
- name: test
  hosts: all 
  tasks:
  - name: sample shell task to check the userID
    shell: echo `whoami`
    become: yes

On Monday, 26 April 2021 at 15:59:20 UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote:

> I think just become_user: yes may solve your issue.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 26 Apr 2021, at 18:26, Hasini P <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> Team,  Can someone sort this out please.. We are using 2.8.18 version of 
> ansible on our control node. 
> I am facing error when trying to perform ping-pong with ansible as 
> become_user root (as pasted below). On the remote server, the user is 
> having access to run sudo commands and user can become root by running sudo 
> su -  
>  (with become disabled, connection is working fine to any remote_user)
>  
> Error -------------------_> 
> 1x.xx.xxx.xx | FAILED! => {
>     "ansible_facts": {
>         "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
>     },
>     "changed": false,
>     "module_stderr": "OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 
> 2017\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: 
> /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 58: Applying options for *\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: 
> Trying existing master\r\ndebug2: fd 4 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug2: 
> mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4\r\ndebug3: mux_client_forwards: 
> request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote\r\ndebug3: 
> mux_client_request_session: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: 
> entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 31364\r\ndebug3: 
> mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\ndebug1: 
> mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2\r\ndebug3: 
> mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received 
> exit status from master 1\r\nShared connection to 1x.xx.xxx.xx closed.\r\n",
>     "module_stdout": "",
>     "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
>     "rc": 1
>  
> I have used the below privilege escalation and tried ssh_connection 
> parameters in ansible config file
> [privilege_escalation]
> become=True
> become_method=sudo
> become_user=root
> become_ask_pass=True
>  
> [ssh_connection]
> ssh_args='-C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s'
> pipelining=False
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On remote server, we have 2.7.5 version of python
> python3 --version
> -bash: python3: command not found
> $ python --version
> Python 2.7.5
> $ which python
> /bin/python
> sudo which python
> SUDO requires you to enter your login password :
> /bin/python
>
> Thanks
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