How to change the default Shell or Terminal Type

[Nagaraju chappa]

Hi Team ,

When I am running an Ansible Playbook on an host it works fine with the root user , but when I tried with different user it is timing out .  It seems the ksh shell profile is looking for terminal type  for that user .Since  I am not passing from playbook it is timing out . 

For the same user , it works fine when I change the default shell to bash on the host . 

My question here is ,

    1) is there a way programmatically can change the default shell to /bin/bash  from playbook?

        I tried using environmental variable , but it didn't work.

      or 

    2) Is there a way to pass the terminal type ?

Thanks for your help in advance . 

Thanks,

Nagaraju 

[Dick Visser]

What exactly is timing out? At what stage?

Either way, this looks like it's not something to fix from within ansible.

I would use the 'env' command to find out exactly what you need.

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[Brian Coca]

By default ansible uses /bin/sh (which POSIX systems are required to
have), changing the shell is non trivial and has many consequences.
That said, use the `ansible_shell_type` variable, but must be to a
matching existing shell plugin (there is no bash but there is an sh
one).

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Brian Coca