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Reputation: 662

Packer ansible lacking sudo permissions

Trying to run a packer build with ansible playbooks, but failing to even start with the most simple task.

I have this as a packer configuration in the provisioners section:

"provisioners": [
    {
      "type": "ansible",
      "playbook_file": "../ansible/main.yml",
      "ansible_env_vars": [ "ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False", "ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS='-o ForwardAgent=yes -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s'", "ANSIBLE_NOCOLOR=True","become=true","become_method=sudo" ]
    }
  ]

And this is the actual playbook content:

- user:
    name: foo
    comment: "Foo Bar"

Upon execution, this fails for the following reason:

amazon-ebs: fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "useradd: Permission denied.\nuseradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.\n", "name": "foo", "rc": 1}

As far as I understand, this is because ansible is not running with sudo priviledges on the packer build. How can I resolve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3192

Answers (1)

Konstantin Suvorov
Konstantin Suvorov

Reputation: 68269

As per documentation ansible_env_vars is only for environment variables, but become and become_method are internal Ansible variables.

Either use extra args in provisioner config:

"extra_arguments": [ "--become" ]

Or add become into your playbook.

Upvotes: 2

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