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moonmoon
moonmoon

Reputation: 110

Where would Ansible run a command if no directory is specified?

I am encountering a problem where I am running the same tasks on 2 remote nodes and the directories that those commands are executed at are different.

If I run pwd through Ansible on each remote host before this command, they return different paths. For example /usr and /usr/src. If I log into the remote host manually I go to /usr/src for both (As specified in their configuration files).

Can anyone explain to me why is this happening? To what directory does Ansible go if you run a command without specifying a chdir?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 736

Answers (1)

β.εηοιτ.βε
β.εηοιτ.βε

Reputation: 39264

I would expect this difference to happen because, when login in manually, you have a .bashrc that cd you in the right folder in one of those two hosts, when Ansible does not source the .bashrc file.

Per default, ssh, and, so, Ansible, logs you into the $HOME folder of the user you define Ansible to connect with, which you can also find in /etc/passwd

Another reason I could see for this to happen would be because you use one user to log into the node but then become another one.

inventory.yml:

all:
  hosts:
    some.example.com:
      ansible_user: some_user

playbook.yml:

- hosts: all
  tasks:
  
  - command: pwd # still you will be in /home/some_user
    become: yes
    become_user: some_other_user

Upvotes: 1

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