Execute commands remotely on a ubuntu

[Vamberto Junior]

Hi everyone,

I am new user on ansible and I have a little difficulty to execute commands  remotely on a Ubuntu Server. (Ubuntu don't accept ssh with user root and the user vamberto can use sudo su - )

My machine is a Fedora Linux and I execute this command: ansible -vvv wolverine -m apt -a "update_cache=yes" --user=vamberto -k --become-method=su --become-user=root --ask-become-pass

And the server asks 

SSH password:  
SU password[defaults to SSH password]:

After I putt the ssh and su password I receive this error:

 olverine | FAILED >> {

   "failed": true,                                                                                                                                            
   "msg": "Failed to lock apt for exclusive operation"                                                                                                        
}                   

Someone can help me ? 

[Brian Coca]

you can use sudo OR su but not chain them.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/become.html

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Brian Coca

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

APT takes out a lock to ensure that only one instance of a package
manager is running. E.g. this can happen if you have synaptic open...

It is not an "ansible error" as such - just how the debian/ubuntu
package manager work...

Hope this helps