chmod not working

[lpesc...@google.com]

HI, I have a play that SHOULD copy a file over from my server to a Windows box AND set permissions to 660 (notice I have tried both modes below separately):

  win_copy:

    src: /ansible/playbook/foo.foo

    dest: C:\mydir\foo.foo

    state: file

    mode: "ug+rw"

 OR   mode: 0660

The play runs w/o fail.

Unfortunately, though, when I stat the file I see:

$ stat foo.foo

  File: foo.foo

  Size: 17              Blocks: 1          IO Block: 65536  regular file

Device: d22da4adh/3526206637d   Inode: 562949953957599  Links: 1

Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  544/Administrators)   Gid: (197121/    None)

Access: 2018-01-03 14:17:25.989300300 -0800

Modify: 2018-01-03 14:17:20.822769500 -0800

Change: 2018-01-03 14:17:20.822769500 -0800

 Birth: 2018-01-03 14:17:25.989300300 -0800

Any idea WHY?

[Matt Martz]

From what I can tell of the documentation, `win_copy` does not support a `mode` argument.  It's likely just being ignored, due to how the argument parsing in windows modules is currently handled.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/win_copy_module.html

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[Larry Pescatore]

Wow, that's something HOPEFULLY will be supported in the future. Thank you.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Matt Martz <ma...@sivel.net> wrote:

From what I can tell of the documentation, `win_copy` does not support a `mode` argument.  It's likely just being ignored, due to how the argument parsing in windows modules is currently handled.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/win_copy_module.html

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Larry Pescatore

Lab Engineer, ERG Inc. @ Google

[Jordan Borean]

Windows does not use the standard user/group/all permissions that are in use with most unix servers so the mode option most likely will never be supported. Windows uses ACLs https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa374872%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 to set permissions on files and folders and these are a lot more complicated than the mode permissions.

While you can't do it in one task with win_copy, the win_acl http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/win_acl_module.html module is designed to set ACL's on a file/folder to achieve a similar result.

Thanks

Jordan

[lpesc...@google.com]

Thanks Jordan,

I am trying win_acl:

- name: chmod foo.foo

  win_acl:

    user: user

    path: C:\cygwin\etc\foo.foo

    type: allow

    state: present

    rights: Read,Write

BUT--

When I stat I still get:

Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  544/Administrators)   Gid: (197121/    None)

Please note I've tried using user: Administrators instead of the specific user. 

Any idea why it doesn't work?