Is remote_user used if I want to carry out action as that user rathe than ssh_user?

[John Yeuk Hon Wong]

my ansible_ssh_user is root, but I want a particular role to use a particular user.

For example, create a directory with this remote_user as owner and group. I know I can set the owner-permission using file module, but I was expecting the following to work

- hosts: webservers
  remote_user: "meow"
  roles:
    - clone_repo

  tasks:
    - name: write directory
      file: path=/home/meow/dir state=directory

In addition to directory creation, clone_repo actually clone a repo. But remote_user is not actually used. They are root/root.

Did I misread the doc? http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_intro.html#hosts-and-users

Thanks

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Are you setting ansible_ssh_user = root in the inventory file?  If so, then yep, this is how ansible is designed but it does confuse people.  There's a few bug reports where the concepts are explained:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/4688
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/4622

The bug reports also point at a workaround that might work for your use case:

- hosts: webservers

  vars:

    - ansible_ssh_user: "meow"

  roles:

    - clone_repo

  tasks:

    - name: write_directory
      file: path=/home/meow/dir state=directory

-Toshio

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[Brian Coca]

for a task that you don't want to run as root add:

sudo: yes
sudo_user: nonrootuser

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