Using ansible_user in task with delegate_to: localhost

[Simon Liddicott]

Hi

I'd expect the following two tasks to return the same output, however the first task returns the user that I was running ansible-playbook as and the second task returns the user set with -u.

I can understand why this might happen, however I need to access the -u username in a task that is delegated to localhost.

Any ideas how I could do that?

Thanks.

---
- name: debug vars
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - debug: var=ansible_user
    delegate_to: localhost

  - debug: var=ansible_user

[Simon Liddicott]

I've worked around it for now using a set fact, but I think it would be helpful if there was a magic variable that always contained the defined remote user even when delegated elsewhere.

- name: Set defined login name

  set_fact:

    defined_user: '{{ ansible_user }}'