I create a vm in the azure cloud with the following ansible script:
---
- name: azure playbook
hosts: localhost
vars_files: ['vars.yaml']
tasks:
- name: Create VM with defaults
azure_rm_virtualmachine:
resource_group: "{{account_prefix}}_rg"
vm_size: Standard_D1
name: "{{account_prefix}}-vm1"
storage_account_name: "{{account_prefix}}store1"
network_interface_names: "{{account_prefix}}vm1eth0"
ssh_password_enabled: false
admin_username: owen
ssh_public_keys:
- { path: /home/owen/.ssh/authorized_keys,
key_data: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDH0q4pmdkJcc/JPVJui5uWMV12GsJAsDCosfUSSFZfTIx92bb9FC3hx1zU7tD1+Zw3aQW13m6ZS2T ... YnvieSbdD3v}
image:
offer: CentOS
publisher: OpenLogic
sku: '7.2'
version: latest
but when running a further script to add another user:
---
- name: create user
hosts: my-vm1.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com
# vars_files: ['vars.yaml']
remote_user: owen
tasks:
- name: Create User
user:
name: andrea
password: $6$rounds=656000$1AspdTb0lfOSc5yM$bAkPgHkuHwap/j6f0P88WxOdjxq3MCRO7/qgufYB.s/4t4k99wwtu/.../
group: users
shell: /bin/bash
become: true
I get "sudo: a password is required" error:
PLAY [create user] *************************************************************
TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
fatal: [my-vm1.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "module_stderr": "", "module_stdout": "sudo: a password is required\r\n", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "parsed": false}
NO MORE HOSTS LEFT *************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @8-add-admin-user-to-vm-with-userpswd-already.retry
My inventory looks like this:
my-vm1.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/home/myuser/.ssh/id_rsa ansible_user=owen ansible_become=true
So how can the user have sudo privileges and so use ansible 'become' and the like?
Note that the same result happens when ansible_user and ansible_become are omitted from the inventory file.
EDIT: If I ssh on to the vm as owen (from the box with the ssh private key, that created the vm) then I am able to run sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers and access that file. So does owen have sudo privileges or not? I'm getting confused now!! Am I misunderstanding the error from the ansible add user script?
EDIT2: I think this question is invalid - as the user does have sudo privileges added manually through the portal. I'm still not sure what's going on but I don't think this question is coherent - or really represents the actual problem I'm trying to solve.
