Ansible 1.9.1 'become' and sudo issue

Question

I am trying to run an extremely simple playbook to test a new Ansible setup.

When using the 'new' Ansible Privilege Escalation config options in my ansible.cfg file:

[defaults]

host_key_checking=false

log_path=./logs/ansible.log
executable=/bin/bash

#callback_plugins=./lib/callback_plugins

######

[privilege_escalation]
become=True
become_method='sudo'
become_user='tstuser01'
become_ask_pass=False

[ssh_connection]
scp_if_ssh=True

I get the following error:

fatal: [webserver1.local] => Internal Error: this module does not support running commands via 'sudo'

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

The playbook is also very simple:

# Checks the hosts provisioned by midrange
---
- name: Test su connecting as current user
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: "sudo to configued user -- tstuser01"
    #action: ping
    command: /usr/bin/whoami

I am not sure if there is something broken in Ansible 1.9.1 or if I am doing something wrong. Surely the 'command' module in Ansible allows running commands as sudo.

Answer 1

The issue is with configuration; I also took it as an example and got the same problem. After playing awhile I noticed that the following works:

1) deprecated sudo:

---
- hosts: all
  sudo: yes
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: "sudo to root"
    command: /usr/bin/whoami

2) new become

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes
  become_method: sudo
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: "sudo to root"
    command: /usr/bin/whoami

3) using ansible.cfg:

[privilege_escalation]
become = yes
become_method = sudo

and then in a playbook:

---
- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: "sudo to root"
    command: /usr/bin/whoami

since you "becoming" tstuser01 (not a root like me), please play a bit, probably user name should not be quoted too:

  become_user = tstuser01

at least this is the way I define remote_user in ansible.cfg and it works... My issue resolved, hope yours too