Try leaving off become_exe. If you can run sudo rootsh then your task can use sudo. When you run sudo rootsh at a command prompt does it ask for your password? If so, the ansible task also will have to respond to a password prompt. That is causing your timeout.
Walter -- Walter Rowe, Division Chief Infrastructure Services, OISM Mobile: 202.355.4123 On Jan 20, 2023, at 8:31 AM, saravanan jothilingam <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for your input. In the remote machine, i dont have any permission to edit any files under /etc. In this case, how to achieve the remote node execution using 'sudo rootsh' cmd. On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 6:33 PM 'Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)' via Ansible Project <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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 -- Walter Rowe, Division Chief Infrastructure Services, OISM Mobile: 202.355.4123 On Jan 20, 2023, at 1:40 AM, saravanan jothilingam <[email protected]<mailto:[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%7C54b6e8c2f3874ef3338b08dafaeab7c8%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C638098183276567858%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FuQiNPkLCsWiHrfSfqlts%2FvoJSjGVheB2YAr4RRCM2s%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%7C54b6e8c2f3874ef3338b08dafaeab7c8%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C638098183276567858%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FuQiNPkLCsWiHrfSfqlts%2FvoJSjGVheB2YAr4RRCM2s%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%7C54b6e8c2f3874ef3338b08dafaeab7c8%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C638098183276567858%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FuQiNPkLCsWiHrfSfqlts%2FvoJSjGVheB2YAr4RRCM2s%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%7C54b6e8c2f3874ef3338b08dafaeab7c8%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C638098183276567858%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=V3Gk90vVuHPhCnS%2FjpKmLTj%2BiMFJPK%2BKeTL8HmPggbA%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%7C54b6e8c2f3874ef3338b08dafaeab7c8%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C638098183276567858%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FuQiNPkLCsWiHrfSfqlts%2FvoJSjGVheB2YAr4RRCM2s%3D&reserved=0> : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. 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