What to do when sudo password prompt is hidden

[Alex Scoble]

I'm using Ansible to do an ad-hoc command against multiple systems. The command does a wget and then pipes to sudo sh. Obviously, I'm using the shell module to do this.

Psuedo command: ansible group -B 1800 -P 30 -m shell -a 'wget -O - http://some.url.com | sudo sh' --ask-pass --sudo --ask-sudo-pass

Problem is that sometimes, when this is done, sudo password prompt is hidden until user hits enter on keyboard.

How can I get Ansible beyond this issue?

Thanks,

Alex

[Brian Coca]

you don't need the sudo in the command line, which is probably causing the issue.

*cringe* at running script from the web as root *cringe*

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[Alex Scoble]

One solution is to do this instead:

ansible group -B 1800 -P 30 -m shell -a 'wget -O /tmp/dosomething http://some.ur.com/somefile && ls -l /tmp/dosomething && sudo /bin/bash /tmp/dosomething' --ask-pass --sudo --ask-sudo-pass

Not sure why doing it the other way sometimes has the prompt issue.

Alex

[Brian Coca]

With && the things get executed sequentially, with  | they get executed almost synchronously, so it has a race condition between your explicit sudo and the sudo ansible runs being fed the password before your's prompts for it.

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[Alex Scoble]

Oh, yeah, dumb mistake.

And it's not from the "web", it's from an internal package source that just happens to be a web site.

Thanks,

Alex

On Thursday, October 30, 2014 9:44:45 AM UTC-7, Alex Scoble wrote:

[Brian Coca]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Alex Scoble <bloggi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh, yeah, dumb mistake.

And it's not from the "web", it's from an internal package source that just happens to be a web site.

Now I'll sleep a bit better.

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