file mode

[Michael Pöllinger]

Hi folks. 

Perhaps i´m wrong, but if i set a file mode with:
- file:
  path: /usr/lib/rssh/rssh_chroot_helper
  mode: 4755

I would expect something like:

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 30728 Nov  8  2014 rssh_chroot_helper

But i get this as result:

--w--w--wt 1 root root 30728 Nov  8  2014 rssh_chroot_helper

Am i going wrong or is this a bug?

kind regards

Michael

[Kai Stian Olstad]

It documented under mode parameter here
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/file_module.html#options

"For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal
numbers (like 0644). Leaving off the leading zero will likely have
unexpected results."

--
Kai Stian Olstad

[Daniel JD]

What you actually want is this:

>>> oct(4755)

'0o11223'

-> rwsr-xr-x

But this is what you got:

>>> oct(658)

'0o1222'

-> -w--w--wt

In your case Ansible dropping the trailing "3".

Just use 04755 as mode argument.