community.general.sudosu become – Run tasks using sudo su -

Note

This become plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.5).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.sudosu.

New in community.general 2.4.0

Synopsis

  • This become plugin allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user using the sudo and su utilities combined.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

alt_method

boolean

added in community.general 9.2.0

Whether to use an alternative method to call su. Instead of running su -l user /path/to/shell -c command, it runs su -l user -c command.

Use this when the default one is not working on your system.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [community.general.sudosu]
alternative_method = VALUE

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_SUDOSU_ALT_METHOD

  • Variable: ansible_sudosu_alt_method

become_flags

string

Options to pass to sudo.

Default: "-H -S -n"

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [privilege_escalation]
become_flags = -H -S -n

    [sudo_become_plugin]
flags = -H -S -n

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_BECOME_FLAGS

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_SUDO_FLAGS

  • Variable: ansible_become_flags

  • Variable: ansible_sudo_flags

become_pass

string

Password to pass to sudo.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [sudo_become_plugin]
password = VALUE

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_BECOME_PASS

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_SUDO_PASS

  • Variable: ansible_become_password

  • Variable: ansible_become_pass

  • Variable: ansible_sudo_pass

become_user

string

User you ‘become’ to execute the task.

Default: "root"

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [privilege_escalation]
become_user = root

    [sudo_become_plugin]
user = root

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_BECOME_USER

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_SUDO_USER

  • Variable: ansible_become_user

  • Variable: ansible_sudo_user

Note

Configuration entries listed above for each entry type (Ansible variable, environment variable, and so on) have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up. The entry types are also ordered by precedence from low to high priority order. For example, an ansible.cfg entry (further up in the list) is overwritten by an Ansible variable (further down in the list).

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)