Getting root privileges in ansible

Question

I have the following task in ansible:

- file: "state=directory path=/servers/repo"
  sudo: yes
  name: "Create the base site directory."

which should run as my user but with root privileges. But even though my user is a sudoer it fails with

Sorry, user sofiab is not allowed to execute '/bin/sh -c echo SUDO-SUCCESS-amlzcqzchzpjsgkllckjhjfednpjgevj; LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C /usr/bin/python /home/sofiab/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1409321488.66-202796192861545/file; rm -rf /home/sofiab/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1409321488.66-202796192861545/ >/dev/null 2>&1' as root

Of course, when i do sudo -s in the server i have all the right permissions but somehow with ansible it's not working.

Any idea why?

Answer 1

The problem was that i had no permission to run /bin/sh. I needed to set the executable to /bin/bash - this can be done in ansible's config file. So in the current directory i created the ansible.cfg file with the following contents:

executable = /bin/bash

and that was it!