Error 'msg: You need to be root to perform this command.' with sudo on

[Thomas Hudson]

I'm getting this error with the following playbook:

---

# file: deploy.yml

# usage: ansible-playbook deploy.yml --inventory-file <hosts-file> --extra-vars "service_name=<service-name> rpm_src_url=<rpm URL>" 

# extra-vars:

#       service_name    - name of the RPM service e.g. medio-spitback

#       rpm_src_url     - URL where RPM to install can be downloaded

- hosts: webservers

  remote_user: raven

  gather_facts: false

  sudo: yes

  sudo_user: raven

  vars:

    rpm_dest: "/tmp/{{ service_name }}.rpm"

  tasks:

  - name: download RPM to host

    get_url: url="{{ rpm_src_url }}" dest="{{ rpm_dest }}" force=yes

  - name: yum uninstall service if needed

    yum: name="{{ service_name }}" state=absent

  - name: yum install RPM

    yum: name="{{ rpm_dest }}" state=present

  - name: ensure service is running

    service: name="{{ service_name }}" state=started

  - name: Delete uploaded RPM

    file: dest="{{ rpm_dest }}" state=absent

The full logging:

TASK: [yum uninstall service if needed] ***************************************

<dla19-sea.hq.msrch> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: raven on PORT 22 TO dla19-sea.hq.msrch

<dla19-sea.hq.msrch> REMOTE_MODULE yum name="medio-spitback" state=absent

<dla19-sea.hq.msrch> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p /tmp/ansible-tmp-1406220230.33-96765765740082 && chmod a+rx /tmp/ansible-tmp-1406220230.33-96765765740082 && echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1406220230.33-96765765740082'

<dla19-sea.hq.msrch> PUT /tmp/tmpq7NAYC TO /tmp/ansible-tmp-1406220230.33-96765765740082/yum

<dla19-sea.hq.msrch> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod a+r /tmp/ansible-tmp-1406220230.33-96765765740082/yum'

<dla19-sea.hq.msrch> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python -tt /tmp/ansible-tmp-1406220230.33-96765765740082/yum'

<dla19-sea.hq.msrch> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'rm -rf /tmp/ansible-tmp-1406220230.33-96765765740082/ >/dev/null 2>&1'

failed: [dla19-sea.hq.msrch] => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "rc": 1, "results": ["Loaded plugins: fastestmirror\n"]}

msg: You need to be root to perform this command.

What am I doing wrong?

TIA

Tomy

[Michael DeHaan]

"What am I doing wrong?"

Not running this step as root.

Consider "remote_user: root" in your playbook for this step, as you can't run it as user "raven".

Also, sudo'ing from raven to raven is a little strange, I think you probably want to just not set sudo_user, then it would assume "raven" is sudoing to "root".

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