On 10.04.2018 12:23, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 10/04/18 21:57, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>> On 10.04.2018 11:47, Richard Hector wrote:
>>> I can't see how to use this at all without being root.
>>
>> Add your user to the lxd group (your distro might use another group
>> name
>> for access)
>
> I have no lxd group; I'm not using lxd. Lxc only. Perhaps this plugin
> actually requires lxd? I suspect not, though; there's also an lxd
> plugin.
Ah I see, I'm preoccupied by lxd at the moment so they have come
synonyms.
>>> On 08/04/18 00:28, Richard Hector wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to use the lxc connection plugin, but it says that my
>>>> container isn't running. Presumably that's because ansible isn't
>>>> running
>>>> as root. Is there a way to tell it to sudo before connecting?
>>
>> You can run sudo ansible-playbook and/or sudo ansible.
>
> Yes. I'd kind of rather not use root for the whole of
> ansible(-playbook), but maybe it's necessary.
You can create a bare minimum playbook to setup ssh that you run with
sudo, and the rest with a normal user over ssh in another playbook.
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Kai Stian Olstad