Ansible troubleshooting - missing sudo password and incorrect sudo password

---

• name: debug module Playbook

hosts: all

become: true

tasks:

- name: root test

ansible.builtin.debug:

msg: "privilege escalation successful"

error execution

$ ansible-playbook -i Playbook/inventory troubleshooting/missingsudopassword_error.yml

PLAY [debug module Playbook] *

TASK [Gathering Facts] *

fatal: [demo.example.com]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Missing sudo password"}

PLAY RECAP *

demo.example.com : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

troubleshoot

$ ansible-playbook --help

usage: ansible-playbook [-h] [--version] [-v] [-k] [--private-key PRIVATE_KEY_FILE] [-u REMOTE_USER]

[...]

Privilege Escalation Options:

control how and which user you become as on target hosts

--become-method BECOME_METHOD

--become-user BECOME_USER

run operations as this user (default=root)

-K, --ask-become-pass

ask for privilege escalation password

-b, --become run operations with become (does not imply password prompting)

ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i Playbook/inventory troubleshooting/missingsudopassword_error.yml -bK

BECOME password:

PLAY [debug module Playbook] *

TASK [Gathering Facts] *

fatal: [demo.example.com]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Incorrect sudo password"}

PLAY RECAP *

demo.example.com : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

verification