I am working on Ansible playbook to execute some of my tasks. In one of my tasks, I need to switch to particular directory and then execute a command using sudo but I need to do all these things by switching to root user first otherwise it won't work. So in general this is what I do without ansible:
david@machineA:/tmp/parallel-20140422$ sudo su
root@machineA:/tmp/parallel-20140422# sudo ./configure && make && make install
After above steps, I see GNU parallel library is installed in my system correctly. But with the below steps using Ansible, I don't see my GNU library getting installed at all.
- name: install gnu parallel
command: chdir=/tmp/parallel-20140422 sudo ./configure && make && make install
Now my question is how can I switch to root user and execute a particular command. I am running Ansible 1.5.4 and looks like I cannot upgrade. I even tried with below but still it doesn't work:
- name: install gnu parallel
command: chdir=/tmp/parallel-20140422 sudo ./configure && make && make install
sudo: true
sudo_user: root
I am running my playbook using below command:
ansible-playbook -e 'host_key_checking=False' setup.yml -u david --ask-pass --sudo -U root --ask-sudo-pass