expected sudo prompt

[reapso...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I hit a snag using "become/sudo". I can become/sudo to the root user if the prompt that is returned is as expected (I think). For example, here is the default prompt.

[sudo] password for testuser:

I think Ansible expects some variation of the prompt above to which it sends the become/sudo password.

If the prompt looks like below (its still a sudo prompt, just not the default)

enter PASSCODE:

become/sudo will fail. I think its because the module, whatever module/code that it is, expects a return prompt similar to the default.

I would like to edit the file that expects this prompt to allow for the additional return prompt. I don't know which .py file that would be. I am open to other suggestions. I reviewed the vars_prompt documentation, but I am not sure how I would set it.

Thanks.

[Madhu]

You have to use ansible_sudo_pass keyword to set the sudo password.

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[Brian Coca]

Ansible uses `sudo -p` to set the prompt it gets, so it always matches.


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Brian Coca

[Imre Széll]

I'm afraid it is not entirely true. I suffer from this issue as well.

I have a few machines that are centrally managed and the sudo password prompt is set to a fixed string. This setting overrides what Ansible or command line invocation specifies with -p flag. The other part of the problem is that Ansible does not handle if I specify my own prompt with the sudo_flags in the configuration file - it will use two -p flags on the final command (like: -p "from config" -p "generated") which still won't match the string in my case. Is there another way to handle this issue?

[Brian Coca]

no, if you are overriding -p, Ansible won't be able to match the prompt.


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Brian Coca