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Sollosa
Sollosa

Reputation: 431

Ansible: Control User Requirements

Being a new ansible user, I'm not able to understand if the control user (except root) needs to exist on target machines too or can those machine be controlled by any user on control machine?

I've tried to go through documentation, but is too overwhelming for a beginner. So tell me if below scenario can be possible?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 712

Answers (1)

Vladimir Botka
Vladimir Botka

Reputation: 68189

On a control node as a user (User1@controller) configure ssh connection to the target (User2@target). For example:

[User1@controler]# ssh-copy-id User2@target

Test SSH connection

[User1@controler]# ssh User2@target

On target allow User2 sudo

# grep User2 /usr/local/etc/sudoers
User2 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

On controller create inventory

[User1@controler]# cat hosts
target
ansible_connection=ssh
ansible_user=User2
ansible_become=yes
ansible_become_user=root
ansible_become_method=sudo

Test Ansible

[User1@controler]# ansible -m setup target

Ansible is a flexible tool. There are many other variations how to configure it. YMMV.

Upvotes: 1

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