ssh connection closed waiting for a privilege escalation password prompt

[Mark Woon]

After going from 1.7.1 to 1.9.1 I'm getting "ssh connection closed waiting for a privilege escalation password prompt" errors.  I tried switching to using the new become directives, but I'm still having problems.

Here's the simplest test case I've come up with:

test.yml:

---

- hosts: my.server.org

  become: yes

  vars:

    - user: testuser

  tasks:

  - command: /usr/bin/whoami

    register: foo

    become_user: "{{ user }}"

  - debug: msg="whoami = {{ foo.stdout }}"

  - name: copy file

    copy: src=foo.txt dest=/home/{{ user }}/test.txt

    become_user: "{{ user }}"

hosts.ini:

[ubuntu]

my.server.org

group_vars/ubuntu.yml:

---

ansible_ssh_user:  admin

ansible_become_pass: xxxxxxxx

And the output:

PLAY [my.server.org] ***********************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************

ok: [my.server.org]

TASK: [command /usr/bin/whoami] ***********************************************

changed: [my.server.org]

TASK: [debug msg="whoami = {{ foo.stdout }}"] *********************************

ok: [my.server.org] => {

    "msg": "whoami = testuser"

}

TASK: [copy file] *************************************************************

fatal: [my.server.org] => ssh connection closed waiting for a privilege escalation password prompt

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

Where am I going wrong?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Mark

[Simon Pierre Desrosiers]

Hello all,

I have the exact same problem.  In a brand new directory, with new ansible.cfg file and hosts file the following playbook fails when I ask the password to do sudo, but only with the file module, the command module works just fine.

---
- name: yaml de test de fail.
  hosts: acceptation
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
   
    - name: test script general
      command: id
      register: uid
      become: yes
      become_user: wso2
#    - debug: var=uid
    - debug: msg="{{uid.stdout}}"
 
    - name: copy file tmp
      copy: src=files/blabla.txt dest=/tmp/blabla.txt
      become: yes
      become_user: wso2

Here is the output :

[Ananke:: 13:09] [Ansible/wso2/TestFails] > ansible-playbook fail.yml --ask-sudo-pass

SUDO password: 

PLAY [yaml de test de fail.] ************************************************** 

TASK: [test script general] *************************************************** 

changed: [acceptation]

TASK: [debug msg="{{uid.stdout}}"] ******************************************** 

ok: [acceptation] => {

    "msg": "uid=500(wso2) gid=500(wso2) groups=500(wso2) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023"

}

TASK: [copy file tmp] ********************************************************* 

fatal: [acceptation] => ssh connection closed waiting for a privilege escalation password prompt

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************** 

           to retry, use: --limit @/Users/simonpie/fail.retry

acceptation                : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=1    failed=0   

[Ananke:: 13:10] [Ansible/wso2/TestFails] > 

Whilst everything works perfectly if I add the NOPASSWD to the sodoer file fo the user I use to log into the machine.

Here is the ansible.cfg file :

[Ananke:: 13:10] [Ansible/wso2/TestFails] > more ansible.cfg 

[defaults]

hostfile = hosts

private_key_file = ~/.ssh/id_rsa

library = /Users/ME/Documents/Ansible/wso2/.library

[Ananke:: 13:15] [Ansible/wso2/TestFails] > 

the hosts file :

[Ananke:: 13:15] [Ansible/wso2/TestFails] > more hosts 

[loc]

local ansible_ssh_host=127.0.0.1 ansible_ssh_port=2222 ansible_ssh_user=vagrant ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/Users/ME/Documents/Ansible/wso2/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key cutename=vmwso2

[dev]

lab ansible_ssh_host=IP ansible_ssh_user=devME ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/id_rsa cutename=labwso2

[accept]

acceptation ansible_ssh_host=otherIP ansible_ssh_user=accME ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/id_rsa cutename=accwso2

[Ananke:: 13:16] [Ansible/wso2/TestFails] > 

I have check that all the files mentioned in the ansible-playbook manual pages do not exist.  Any idea what could go wrong here ?