authorized_key: Not creating .ssh directory - while saying success

[Raja Mukherjee]

Platform: 

raja@ansible-control:~/ansible$ cat /etc/lsb-release | grep -i desc | cut -d'=' -f2

"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"

Ansible is installed through PPA

raja@ansible-control:~/ansible$ ansible --version

ansible 1.6

roles/user/vars/main.yml 

(for testing, eventually will go to group_vars)

authorized:

  - username: mimi

    ssh_key_files:

      - id_rsa_mimi.pub

roles/users/tasks/main.yml (snippet)

- name: Copy SSH Keys

  authorized_key: user="{{ item.0.username }}" 

                  key="{{ lookup('file', '/keys/' + item.0.username + '/' + item.1) }}"

  with_subelements: 

    - authorized

    - ssh_key_files

  tags: 'users'

Key file exists

raja@ansible-control:~/ansible$ ll roles/users/files/keys/mimi/

total 16

drwxrwxr-x 2 raja raja 4096 May 16 15:04 ./

drwxrwxr-x 4 raja raja 4096 May 16 15:04 ../

-rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja  740 May 16 09:10 id_rsa_mimi.pub

When I run this, it says successful...

TASK: [users | Copy SSH Keys] *************************************************

<localhost> REMOTE_MODULE authorized_key user="mimi" key="" manage_dir=yes

<localhost> EXEC ['/bin/sh', '-c', 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1400271971.73-135477642264398 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1400271971.73-135477642264398 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1400271971.73-135477642264398']

<localhost> PUT /tmp/tmpp3ljsQ TO /home/raja/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1400271971.73-135477642264398/authorized_key

<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p "[sudo via ansible, key=banwdhwvmsabmqjcjmygxjkmjbmztflf] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo SUDO-SUCCESS-banwdhwvmsabmqjcjmygxjkmjbmztflf; LC_CTYPE=C LANG=C /usr/bin/python /home/raja/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1400271971.73-135477642264398/authorized_key; rm -rf /home/raja/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1400271971.73-135477642264398/ >/dev/null 2>&1'"'"''

ok: [localhost] => (item=({'username': 'mimi'}, 'id_rsa_mimi.pub')) => {"changed": false, "item": [{"username": "mimi"}, "id_rsa_mimi.pub"], "key": "", "key_options": null, "keyfile": "/home/mimi/.ssh/authorized_keys", "manage_dir": true, "path": null, "state": "present", "unique": false, "user": "mimi"}

However, it does not create .ssh directory or .ssh/authorized_keys on the target machine/userHome...user is created as part of the same role/tasks, just prior to this task. 

Any idea what's going on?

[Raja Mukherjee]

I figured it out...problem is that if lookup function does not find a file, it seems to not generate any error to upstream...my issue was...this line

key="{{ lookup('file', '/keys/' + item.0.username + '/' + item.1) }}"

it should be

key="{{ lookup('file', 'keys/' + item.0.username + '/' + item.1) }}" - relative to the roles/files

I had a similar issue with copy and that's what aided me to figure this out.

Thanks

.raja

[Michael DeHaan]

There should already be a ticket open about lookup module errors not resulting in errors that traverse down the stack.

This is currently flagged a "P2" so it should be included in the next dot release.

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[Raja Mukherjee]

Thanks Michael...

.raja