ansible behavior to specific sudo commands on managed nodes

[Raman Kathpalia]

Here to discuss the ansible behavior when user at managed nodes is given sudo privileges to specific commands. 

I have sudo privileges on remote managed host [rm-host.company.com] to specific commands.  Two of them are: 

   /bin/mkdir /opt/somedir/unit*
   /bin/chmod 2775 /opt/somedir/unit*

PS:  /opt/somedir at remote nodes exists already.

My ansible control machine version:

ansible 2.7.10
python version = 2.7.5 (default, Mar 26 2019, 22:13:06) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36)]




YAML code fails when I use ansbile "file" module even though I have sudo privileges to chmod and mkdir as listed above.

   - name:  7|Ensure Directory - "/opt/somedir/{{ ENV_CHOSEN }}" Permissions are 2775

     become: yes
     become_method: sudo
     file: path="/opt/somedir/{{ ENV_CHOSEN }}" state=directory mode=2775

     when:
       - ansible_facts['os_family'] == "CentOS" or ansible_facts['os_family'] == "RedHat"
       - ansible_distribution_version | int >= 6
       - http_dir_path.stat.exists == true
       - http_dir_path.stat.isdir == true
       - CreateWebAgentEnvDir is defined
       - CreateWebAgentEnvDir is succeeded

     register: ChangeDirPermission

   - debug:
       var: ChangeDirPermission

Runtime error:

TASK [7|Ensure Directory - "/opt/somedir/unitc" Permissions are 2775] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [rm-host.company.com]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "FIPS mode initialized\r\nShared connection to rm-host.company.com closed.\r\n", "module_stdout": "sudo: a password is required\r\n", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}
        to retry, use: --limit @/u/joker/scripts/Ansible/playbooks/agent/plays/agent_Install.retry

PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
rm-host.company.com     : ok=9    changed=2    unreachable=0    failed=1

But succeeds when I use command module:

   - name:  7|Ensure Directory - "/opt/somedir/{{ ENV_CHOSEN }}" Permissions are 2775

     command: sudo /bin/chmod 2775 "/opt/somedir/{{ ENV_CHOSEN }}"

     when:
       - ansible_facts['os_family'] == "CentOS" or ansible_facts['os_family'] == "RedHat"
       - ansible_distribution_version | int >= 6
       - http_dir_path.stat.exists == true
       - http_dir_path.stat.isdir == true
       - CreateagentEnvDir is defined
       - CreateagentEnvDir is succeeded

     register: ChangeDirPermission

   - debug:
       var: ChangeDirPermission

Success Runtime debug output:

TASK [7|Ensure Directory - "/opt/somedir/unitc" Permissions are 2775] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
 [WARNING]: Consider using 'become', 'become_method', and 'become_user' rather than running sudo

changed: [rm-host.company.com]

TASK [debug] *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [rm-host.company.com] => {
    "ChangeDirPermission": {
        "changed": true,
        "cmd": [
            "sudo",
            "/bin/chmod",
            "2775",
            "/opt/somedir/unitc"
        ],
        "delta": "0:00:00.301570",
        "end": "2019-06-22 13:20:17.300266",
        "failed": false,
        "rc": 0,
        "start": "2019-06-22 13:20:16.998696",
        "stderr": "",
        "stderr_lines": [],
        "stdout": "",
        "stdout_lines": [],
        "warnings": [
            "Consider using 'become', 'become_method', and 'become_user' rather than running sudo"
        ]
    }
}

Question: 

How can I make this work without using command module? I want to stick to ansible core modules using 'become', 'become_method' rather than running sudo in command module.

1. Note:

   It works when sudo is enabled for ALL commands. But [ user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL ] cannot be given on remote host. Not allowed by company policy for the group I am in.

I posted this on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56717879/ansible-behavior-to-specific-sudo-commands-on-managed-nodes as well.

1. 
   

[Angel Rengifo Cancino]

Is the option "requiretty" enabled in /etc/sudoers

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[Angel Rengifo Cancino]

Ignore that please, I've read incorrectly your message.