Mechanics of sudo

[Deyna Cegielski]

I've run into a bit of a brick wall with Ansible.

As part of my playbook I've created an "application daemon" user. This user is responsible for running any software deployed to the provisioned machine. Its not a sudoer.

I'm trying to execute some post deployment tasks and one of them is to run a program I've installed as the application user. Everything else in the playbook is executed as root (using sudo from vagrant user) e.g.

---

- hosts: vagrant

  sudo: true

  sudo_user: root

To run the program I'm using the shell module e.g.

-      shell: node cli <job-name>

       sudo_user: <appuser>

       sudo: true

However, it hangs.

I can verify that it works normally by sshing to my vm as vagrant and then sudo to <appuser>. I'm using the -i flag to ensure <appuser> environment is loaded (~/.profile)

I'm fairly positive the issue lies with it still asking me for a password.

If I dont sudo in the task, then it will run it as root but the environmental variables I need are not set.

Can anyone elighten me at the actual command Ansible runs when using the sudo flag?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Brian Coca]

using -vvvv should show you what ansible runs