How to switch the local connection user from root to another user

[Tony Chia]

Here is my playbook

# test.yml

- name: localhost_test

  hosts: localhost

  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

  - name: Run ls

    shell: ls

    register: ls_result

I am using a local ansible.cfg with this setting

remote_user = tchia

when I run this on the command line, I can see it's using my user name

ansible-playbook -vvvv -i ./inventory test.yml   

Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/commands/command.py

<localhost> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: tchia

<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~ && sleep 0'

However when run the same playbook through AWX, it's not picking my my remote_user setting even though the awx log file show it's using my ansible.cfg

ansible-playbook 2.4.1.0

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config file = /var/lib/awx/projects/perforce_test/ansible.cfg

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configured module search path = [u'/var/lib/awx/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']

......4

......

Using module_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module_utils/pycompat24.py

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Using module_utils file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module_utils/six/__init__.py

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Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/commands/command.py

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<127.0.0.1> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root

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<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~ && sleep 0'

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[Matthew Jones]

Did you try "ansible_user" ?

using "become" is another option which is probably more in line with what you want.

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