remote_user specified in play available to roles in the play

[Jeremy Gailor]

One thing I've noticed, and have not been able to find a resolution to via IRC or reading the source, is how to make the remote_user var set at the play level available to all roles in the play.  It's useful to have this for a few tasks, and while it's easy enough to define it under the roles, it's just c/p'ing code at that point and doesn't feel right or as clean as the rest of Ansible can be.  I think this would be really useful to add as behavior.

[Brian Coca]

Not sure what you mean. When set at play level, all tasks by default will use that remote_user. you can override on specific tasks with different remote_user.​ Of course unless hostvars override with ansible_ssh_user

[Michael DeHaan]

Did you want to reference that variable in a template somewhere?

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Brian Coca <bria...@gmail.com> wrote:

Not sure what you mean. When set at play level, all tasks by default will use that remote_user. you can override on specific tasks with different remote_user.​ Of course unless hostvars override with ansible_ssh_user

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[Jeremy Gailor]

I was running a playbook and referencing remote_user in a file under /roles/my_role/tasks/deploy.yml, (included in /roles/my_role/tasks/main.yml) and Ansible was giving me an error that {{remote_user}} did not exist.

[Michael DeHaan]

This isn't an output variable that you can use in a template anywhere.

You may be interested in the value of {{ ansible_ssh_user }}

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[Jeremy Gailor]

Michael,

This is super helpful.  Thanks.   Since you would be in the know, is there any reason that remote_user is not passed down to roles, etc.?  It seems like it would be something useful to have access to, and was a surprise when I didn't.

[Michael DeHaan]

It is -- it's called ansible_ssh_user.

Originally the variable in ansible was called "user" but to avoid confusion when used with the "user" module, remote_user is an alias.

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[Tomasz Kontusz]

Michael DeHaan <mic...@ansible.com> napisał:

>It is -- it's called ansible_ssh_user.
>
>Originally the variable in ansible was called "user" but to avoid
>confusion
>when used with the "user" module, remote_user is an alias.

You mean "task parameter" (or are they called arguments?), and not "variable", right?

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[Michael DeHaan]

I do.  Parameter is probably a good word.

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