How to add become password in a task?

[ZillaYT]

I've read the docs and it seems like all of them point me to coding the p/w either on the CLI or in group vars, but I want to do this

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- hosts: server

  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

  - name: Create a file in the server /etc file system

    file:

      path: /etc/test.txt

      state: touch

    become: yes

    become_password: mySecretpw # this does NOT work, what should?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

What works is in the documentation.
The reason you don't find something like this in the documentation is because the feature doesn't exist.

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Jordan Borean]

This can still be done, you can set the ansible_become_password variable using the vars argument like so;

- command: whoami
become: yes
become_user: user
vars:
ansible_become_password: password

The vars key can be used to set any variable for that particular task and it can even include ansible_become_user if you want to override the host variable if set where become_user is just a fallback.

Thanks

Jordan