'Interactive authentication required' error even using 'become'

[Dev]

Hello everyone,

I'm using the following construction to start and stop wildfly service:

- hosts: appserver
  remote_user: jenkins
  tasks:

  - name: Stop WildFly
    become: true
    become_user: wildfly
    become_method: sudo
    systemd:
      name: wildfly
      state: stopped

  - name: Start WildFly
    become: true
    become_user: wildfly
    become_method: sudo
    systemd:
      name: wildfly
      state: started

But in every time and after many combinations I'm still geting an error message:

Unable to stop service wildfly: Failed to stop wildfly.service: Interactive authentication required.

Similar construction (without systemcmd module) works fine:

  - name: Stop WildFly
    command: sudo systemctl stop wildfly
    become: true
    become_user: wildfly

And I don't have any problems to switch to user wildfly using sudo, in the unix command line.

Do you have any ideas what could be wrong?

Ansible version: 2.3.2.0
Python version: 2.7.5
OS: RHEL 7.4

[Karn Kumar]

What if you use `service module just the sake for rather systemd..  pls try below and see how it goes   
it looks like a bug with systemd ..

- name: start WildFly service
  service:
    name: WildFly
    state: started
    enabled: True

[Dev]

Still I got an error message:

fatal: [mydomain.com]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "failed": true,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "daemon_reload": false,
            "enabled": true,
            "masked": null,
            "name": "wildfly",
            "no_block": false,
            "state": "stopped",
            "user": false
        }
    },
    "msg": "Unable to enable service wildfly: Failed to execute operation: Interactive authentication required.\n"
}

[Dev]

I also tried to use become inside hosts section, but it also doesn't help.

- hosts: appserver
  remote_user: jenkins
  become: yes
  become_user: wildfly
  become_method: sudo
  tasks:

  - name: Stop WildFly
    become: true

    become_user: root
    become_method: sudo
    systemd:
      name: wildfly
      state: stopped  

But in this case the following message appears:
sudo: a password is required

[Philippe Eveque]

I do not think it is a systemd bug.

related to your first palybook in this mail-thread

the jenkins user or any other you use to connect to the system via ssh must have sudo capability (e.g: be in the wheel group) 

and you need to pass the passwork with -K  (or its moder equivalent)

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[Andrew thomas]

Me too facing the same issue, privilege escalation is not working as expected. However, like you mentioned it works perfectly fine while using command/shell module. Please guide me if you got any solution.