/etc not writable

[Sanjay Kumar]

Hi,

I am not able copy to remote host, getting not writable error, my playbook  is here.

---
 - hosts: all
   become: yes
   become_user: sanjay
   become_method: sudo
   tasks:
     - name: copy some file
       copy: src=/home/sanjay/messages dest=/etc

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remote host enabled with sudo for user with NOPASSWD: All option
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ansible --version
ansible 2.0.1.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

[Johannes Kastl]

On 06.05.16 14:46 Sanjay Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not able copy to remote host, getting not writable error, my playbook
> is here.

> copy: src=/home/sanjay/messages dest=/etc

I am not sure if the copy module is as picky as rsync in regard to
trailing slashes.

...dest=/etc/

Maybe use the full path:

...dest=/etc/messages

Johannes

[Sanjay Kumar]

No luck

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 06. May 2016 14:46, Sanjay Kumar wrote:
> I am not able copy to remote host, getting not writable error, my playbook
> is here.
>
> ---
> - hosts: all
> become: yes
> become_user: sanjay
> become_method: sudo
> tasks:
> - name: copy some file
> copy: src=/home/sanjay/messages dest=/etc

become_user: sanjay, means Ansible will do a sudo to user sanjay. So
sanjay need permission to the destination.

I guess what you really want is become_user: root , which is the default.

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Sanjay Kumar]

Thanks Kai Stian Olstad,

I changed as you suggested become_user: root, working now.

On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 7:03:15 PM UTC+5:30, Sanjay Kumar wrote:

[Yuriy Buha]

Hello. 

I have similar case, and i get this error, but i do need to create it as sudo user. I do not have root privilege.

Can someone please advise?

Thank you

[Fayad]

Try these options

Copy the file to the sudo user's home directory or any other directory where the user has got permission.

Or

Increase the permissions of the destination directory so that user can write into that directory.

Fayad

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[Yuriy Buha]

Hi Fayad. 

Thank you for the quick reply. 

I tried to create the file in user's home directory, and then move to the /etc, but then i would get a permission error moving the file to that directory.

It worked after i changed the ownership of /etc from root to the user, but i'm not sure if that's a proper way to do. Is it ok for the /etc directory to be owned by the user but not root?

thank you

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[Dick Davies]

Nope, that's super bad. I thought you didn't have root access?

> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/78612bcc-e25c-4ee5-9dd0-d5e833a3a696%40googlegroups.com.

[Fayad]

Changing ownership of /etc is not a proper way. So you have root access??

Fayad

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[Yuriy Buha]

No, do not have root, but I do have sudo access that allows me to chown of /etc

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