Sync folder from remote permissions denied

[Anatol]

Hi,

I´d like to sync logfiles from a remote ubuntu 12.04 server to my local computer:

That´s what my Playbook looks like:

- hosts: "{{targets}}"
  vars:
     remote_user: "{{username}}"
  tasks:

    - name: Synchronize log files
      synchronize:  src=/var/log/apache2/ dest=/Users/me/Desktop/logs/ mode=pull
      sudo: yes

unfortuntely it fails with:

msg: sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
Sorry, try again.

If I run the playbook without sudo:yes I get a permission denied as the specified user is not member
of root or adm group.

(That´s what the Remote Folder looks like )

drwxr-x---  3 root   adm        12288 Mar 15 06:25 apache2

I think a workaround could be to add the user to root or adm group or change chmod of the remote folder,
but this is a kind of ugly. Is there a way to grant rights (sudo -i)  to the user via ansible?

best,

anatol

[Anatol]

As I disabled root access from ssh, I´ve ended up adding the user to adm group

sudo usermod -aG adm <user>

and exluded a file which belongs to root

      synchronize:  src=/var/log/apache2/ dest=/Users/me/Desktop/logs/ mode=pull rsync_opts=--exclude=.elinks