Permissions issue, cannot become root

[lask001]

Been banging my head against this since yesterday, hoping someone is able to shed some insight on my issues.

I have a simple role that I'm trying to install java with:

---
- name: Install JDK
  yum:
    name: /tmp/jdk.rpm
    state: present

This works on my test servers without issue. I am trying to run this on a real server at this point and am running into issues with permissions.

My inventory file is basic:

[severs]
host1

and my playbook is as follows:

---

- name: Install JDK

  hosts: servers

  remote_user: myuser

  become: true

  become_user: myuser

  become_method: sudo

  become_flags: '-s /bin/sh'

  roles:

  - jdk

I've tried quite a few different combinations of setting the become_user to nobody, root, leaving it out, and so on, but have had no success. If I login to the server manually and run a sudo yum install /tmp/jdk as 'myuser' it works fine, and the playbook will actually run after (stating there is nothing to change). Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Dick Davies]

become_user is the user you sudo to, that should probably not be the
same as remote_user
(or it's a bit of a waste of time).

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[Daniel JD]

To install packages you need to be root. So set become_user to root. Now you need to give ansible your sudo password via "-K". You dont need the become_method or become_flags

[Brian Coca]

you don't even need become_user: root as that is the default.

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Brian Coca

[prakash ranjan]

I am also facing the same issue. tried several options but no solution.

Unable to take privilege of "sudo su -".

This is content of my playbook. Commented ones shows that I have tried those options. I have also tried many options with command lines.

---
- hosts: all
#  remote_user: root
#  become: yes
#  become_method: sudo
#  become_exe: "sudo su -"
  become_user: root
  tasks:
     - name: run adhoc command which required root priviledge
#       command: /usr/bin/cat /root/ab
        shell: su monitor -l -c "/usr/bin/cat /root/ab"
#       remote_user: root
#       become: yes #true
#       become_method: sudo
#       become_flags: '-u' # '-s /bin/sh'
#       become_user: root

-Prakash