User that runs ansible

[Mathias Bogaert]

Hi,

How do I get the local user in an variable? My usercase:

- name: Make sure my authorized key is installed

  authorized_key: user=${USER} key="{{ lookup('file', '/home/' + $USER + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"

Thanks,

Mathias

[Jan-Piet Mens]

> How do I get the local user in an variable? My usercase:

Look for the ENV lookup: $ENV(USER)

-JP

[Mathias Bogaert]

Thanks! But it fails:

msg: Failed to lookup user ${ENV(USER)}: 'getpwnam(): name not found: ${ENV(USER)}'

failed: [hdata01] => {"failed": true, "item": ""}

Any idea?

[Mathias Bogaert]

It works like this:

- name: Make sure my authorized key is installed

  authorized_key: user=$ENV(USER) key="{{ lookup('file', '/home/' + $ENV(USER) + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"

but the key doesn't evaluate. The lookup doesn't work. My remote file contains 

{{lookup('file', '/home/' + mathias + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub')}}

?

[Jan-Piet Mens]

> msg: Failed to lookup user ${ENV(USER)}: 'getpwnam(): name not found:
> ${ENV(USER)}'
> failed: [hdata01] => {"failed": true, "item": ""}

getpwnam() failed?! Is this a Unix system you're running on? ;-)
What OS/version?

Can you try

- local_action: debug msg="Hello $ENV(HOME)"

and run ansible-playbook -vvv

-JP

[Mathias Bogaert]

Yeah, it's an Ubuntu 12.10.

But it works like this:

- name: Make sure my authorized key is installed

  authorized_key: user=$ENV(USER) key="{{ lookup('file', '/home/' + $ENV(USER) + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"

but the key doesn't evaluate. The lookup doesn't work. My remote authorized_keys now contains 

{{lookup('file', '/home/' + mathias + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub')}}

which doesn't work...

[Mathias Bogaert]

This works:

- name: Make sure my local RSA SSH key is installed

  authorized_key: user=$ENV(USER) key="{{ lookup('file', '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"

Thanks!!

[Michael DeHaan]

Friendly reminder:

$ENV(USER) as a mechanism of getting lookup plugins is deprecated

We should be instructing folks do to:

{{ lookup('env', 'USER') }}

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[patte]

Hi! For me it doesn't!
Neither this:

  authorized_key: user=$ENV(USER) key="{{ lookup('file', '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"

nor this:
  authorized_key: user={{ lookup('env', 'USER') }} key="{{ lookup('file', '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"

both fail with:
failed: [dev] => {"failed": true, "item": ""}
msg: Failed to lookup user patte: 'getpwnam(): name not found: patte'

I'm patte on OSX, with ansible 1.5.5 fired by vagrant provision
any idea?

[Michael DeHaan]

This seems unrelated and you're replying to an old thread, but please try this on Ansible 1.6 (so you're using a recently released version) and give us some steps to reproduce this, perhaps.

Thanks!

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