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ali haider
ali haider

Reputation: 20232

Permissions issue when using copy module in Ansible on Mac

I am trying the following task from a role in Ansible v2.2.1 running on Mac OS X v10.11.6 but I am getting a permissions issue (copied below):

  - name: Create the test scripts
    copy:
      src: "usr_bin_{{item}}"
      dest: "/usr/bin/{{item}}"
      owner: root
      group: wheel
      mode: 0755
    with_items: ["abc", "def", "ghi"]
    become: true
    become_method: sudo
    become_user: root

error

failed: [localhost] (item=abc) => {"checksum": "44b300f4a9334ca0e34d0e5b3e2c121c76214f7c", "failed": true, "item": "abc", "msg": "Destination /usr/bin not writable"}
failed: [localhost] (item=def) => {"checksum": "dcd44e71b93f303c5d9abfcecd48c8637eabeeaa", "failed": true, "item": "def", "msg": "Destination /usr/bin not writable"}
failed: [localhost] (item=ghi) => {"checksum": "b9c28df8772702ba9b4b7d05e24c972aa536bdc3", "failed": true, "item": "ghi", "msg": "Destination /usr/bin not writable"}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1493

Answers (1)

techraf
techraf

Reputation: 68559

You cannot freely write to /usr/bin on OS X / macOS (since El Capitan) - read about System Integrity Protection.

The common practice is to use /usr/local/bin instead, but you need to add it to PATH. Mind that Homebrew package manager assumes (by default) subdirectories of /usr/local should be writable by a regular user, not root.

Upvotes: 2

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