In ansible if you have become: true on a task, that task will run with elevated
privileges. On Linux the default is to try sudo. You don't need to specify
become_exe. Any command given to your shell task will run in a root privileged
shell. The user ID you run the playbook as must have login access to the remote
system and sudo privilege on the remote system via /etc/sudoers or a file in
/etc/sudoers.d.
In our environment we have some common files we populate in /etc/sudoers.d
based on server function. For example, all servers we manage have a server mgmt
id we use for remote mgmt and a special group for our own user IDs when we
remote into those machines. We place a file in /etc/sudoers.d that grants our
mgmt ID and mgmt group the rights we need. For all database servers our DBA
group requires some privileges so we add an /etc/sudoers.d/dba file that
controls their privileged access for members of the DBA group members.
In your testroot.yaml file you can remove the become_exe line.
testroot.yaml
---
- hosts: '{{ host }}'
gather_facts: yes
tasks:
- name: Get current user on remote
ansible.builtin.shell: |
whoami
become: true
register: out
- debug:
msg: "{{ out }}"
Next you need to make sure your user ID that makes the connection to the remote
machine has sudo access that does not require a password. I imagine your sudo
command was waiting on a response to a password prompt that was never going to
be answered.
Walter
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On Jan 20, 2023, at 1:40 AM, saravanan jothilingam <[email protected]>
wrote:
Any update on this?
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 8:05 PM saravanan jothilingam
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
I am a novice to ansible and am practising to get more hands-on. I am trying
one usecase where I need to connect to a remote SLES12 linux server using my id
and then switch to root user and execute some tasks. While switching over to
root user (cmd: sudo rootsh), it prompts for a root password. When I run this
usecase using ansible playbook, it gives the below error.
Could you please let me know what would be correct/valid directives (become_*)
that I need to use to run the cmd using root user. Appreciate your help.
I wrote this playboo
testroot.yaml
---
- hosts: '{{ host }}'
gather_facts: yes
tasks:
- name: Get current user on remote
ansible.builtin.shell: |
whoami
become: true
become_exe: "sudo rootsh"
register: out
- debug:
msg: "{{ out }}"
ansible-playbook -i hosts testroot.yaml -e
"host=host.iil.corp.com<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhost.iil.corp.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cwalter.rowe%40nist.gov%7C156eed1cf35745db8b8808dafab1810e%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C638097937538559199%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2Fs%2BA%2FTLfT%2B5qdJB1p8%2BE8ycWBmBDqz9PH2pKufF6a%2Bs%3D&reserved=0>"
--ask-become-pass -k
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Ansible will require Python 3.8 or newer on the
controller starting with Ansible 2.12. Current version: 3.6.15 (default, Sep 15
2021, 14:20:42) [GCC]. This feature will be removed
from ansible-core in version 2.12. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by
setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
SSH password:
BECOME password[defaults to SSH password]:
PLAY
[host.iil.corp.com<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhost.iil.corp.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cwalter.rowe%40nist.gov%7C156eed1cf35745db8b8808dafab1810e%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C638097937538559199%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2Fs%2BA%2FTLfT%2B5qdJB1p8%2BE8ycWBmBDqz9PH2pKufF6a%2Bs%3D&reserved=0>]
********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Get current user on remote]
***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal:
[host.iil.corp.com<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhost.iil.corp.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cwalter.rowe%40nist.gov%7C156eed1cf35745db8b8808dafab1810e%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C638097937538559199%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2Fs%2BA%2FTLfT%2B5qdJB1p8%2BE8ycWBmBDqz9PH2pKufF6a%2Bs%3D&reserved=0>]:
FAILED! => {"msg": "Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt:
Subject to Company's Global Employee and Global Contingent Worker Privacy
Notices\r\n(see
https://employeecontent.corp.com/content/corp/Global_Employee_and_Global_Contingent_Worker_Privacy.html<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Femployeecontent.corp.com%2Fcontent%2Fcorp%2FGlobal_Employee_and_Global_Contingent_Worker_Privacy.html&data=05%7C01%7Cwalter.rowe%40nist.gov%7C156eed1cf35745db8b8808dafab1810e%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C638097937538559199%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=F3tE8F7%2F%2FVJ%2BHc%2FaXbsdXmLDzwCOu2I2Md4CO1i%2FnHg%3D&reserved=0>
)\r\nall system access and delegated/privileged activity on the corp
network\r\nmay be logged for auditing and security purposes, including your
username \r\nand commands used. Log records may be retained for up to 1
year.\r\n\r\nWe trust you have received the usual lecture from the local
System\r\nAdministrator. It usually boils down to these three things:\r\n\r\n
#1) Respect the privacy of others.\r\n #2) Think before you type.\r\n
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.\r\n\r\nRemember you may use
'sudo -l' to review a list of authorized commands.\r\n\r\n"}
PLAY RECAP
**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
host.iil.corp.com<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhost.iil.corp.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cwalter.rowe%40nist.gov%7C156eed1cf35745db8b8808dafab1810e%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C638097937538559199%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2Fs%2BA%2FTLfT%2B5qdJB1p8%2BE8ycWBmBDqz9PH2pKufF6a%2Bs%3D&reserved=0>
: ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0
ignored=0
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