.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-* Permission denied

Question

Remote host throws error while running Ansible playbook despite a user being sudo user.

"/usr/bin/python: can't open file '/home/ludd/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1466162346.37-16304304631529/zypper'

Answer 1

A fix that worked for me, was to change the path of the ansibles' remote_tmp directory, in ansibles' configuration file, e.g.

# /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
remote_tmp      = /tmp/${USER}/ansible

Datailed information can be found here.

Note: With ansible v4 (or later) this this variable might look like this ansible_remote_tmp check the docs

Caution：Ansible Configuration Settings can be made and used in a configuration file which will be searched for in the following order:

• ANSIBLE_CONFIG (environment variable if set)
• ansible.cfg (in the current directory)
• ~/.ansible.cfg (in the home directory)
• /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg