Using group module; "Failed to find required executable groupadd"

[Joshua Burke]

Hello, 

While attempting to provision a Digital Ocean virtual server my playbook needs to create two groups:

  - sudousers

  - sshusers

Creation of the virtual server is successful however creating the groups fails with the message:

msg: Failed to find required executable groupadd

The OS is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, freshly provisioned. 

Sending the which groupadd command after SSH to the server yeilds:

> which groupadd 

 /usr/sbin/groupadd

Sending the command groupadd results in a help page, so the executable is definitely there. 

Ansible versions:

  - ansible 1.7.1

  - ansible-playbook 1.7.1

Any ideas what I may be doing wrong here?

[Joshua Burke]

Hello All, 

I found that the problem was my use of the "-c local" flag in my CLI invocation of the playbook.

Additionally I upgraded from Ansible version 1.7.1 to version 1.7.2

Originally the command that failed was:

    ansible-playbook -v -c local -i localhost someplaybook.yml

After changing the command to 

    ansible-playbook -v -i localhost someplaybook.yml

The playbook ran as expected.

Just wanted to post a solution for everyone, in case of future similar problems.

[Michael DeHaan]

Yes, -c local will force every host in your playbook to run locally.  It's good for a simple playbook targetting localhost, but you shouldn't do it in general with playbooks targetting your whole infra.

Glad you figured it out!

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