user: root ignored when running on hosts:localhost ?

[Torsten Reinhard]

Hi,

I´m using Ansible 1.8.2 running on Virtualbox (CentOs6.5) with this small playbook:

- name: Test playbook for roles/jdk
  hosts: localhost
  user: root
 
  vars:
    jdk_root: /tmp/opt/java
   
  roles:
    - { role: jdk, jdk_version: "1.8.0_40" }

The role looks like:

---
#
# JDK
#
  - debug: var=ansible_user_id
       
  - name: Assures {{jdk_root}} dir exists
    file: path={{jdk_root}} state=directory  
...

When I run this playbook using the command:

ansible-playbook -i /path/to/hosts test-jdk.yml -v

I receive the following output:

PLAY [Test playbook for roles/jdk] ********************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK: [jdk | debug var=ansible_user_id] ***************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "ansible_user_id": "vagrant"
}
...

=> Why is the User "vagrant" used here, although I set user: root in the playbook ?

A task that tries to chown fails afterwards.

Whenever I define a [group_name] in my hosts file configured to localhost (192.168.....) it all works fine.


Thanx for any explanation,

Torsten
sdfs

ssdf

[Brian Coca]

remote_user( which is what the deprecated 'user' sets) is ignored on
connection: local as there is no 'remote login', you can either force
to ssh to localhost as root with connection: ssh or you can use
become: true to use sudo to become root locally.

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