Introduction
Today we're going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about missing sudo password and incorrect sudo password.
I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot.
Playbook
The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live Playbook to show you practically the missing sudo password and incorrect sudo password and how to solve it!
error code
- missingsudopassword_error.yml
``yaml
---
- name: debug module Playbook
hosts: all
become: true
tasks:
- name: root test
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "privilege escalation successful"
`
error execution
`bash
$ 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
`bash
$ 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
privilege escalation method to use (default=sudo), use ansible-doc -t become
-l` to list valid choices.
--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