community.general.pmrun become – Privilege Manager run

Note

This become plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.pmrun.

Synopsis

  • This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the pmrun utility.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

become_exe

string

Sudo executable

Default: "pmrun"

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [privilege_escalation]
become_exe = pmrun

    [pmrun_become_plugin]
executable = pmrun

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_BECOME_EXE

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_PMRUN_EXE

  • Variable: ansible_become_exe

  • Variable: ansible_pmrun_exe

become_flags

string

Options to pass to pmrun.

Default: ""

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [privilege_escalation]
become_flags = ""

    [pmrun_become_plugin]
flags = ""

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_BECOME_FLAGS

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_PMRUN_FLAGS

  • Variable: ansible_become_flags

  • Variable: ansible_pmrun_flags

become_pass

string

pmrun password.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [pmrun_become_plugin]
password = VALUE

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_BECOME_PASS

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_PMRUN_PASS

  • Variable: ansible_become_password

  • Variable: ansible_become_pass

  • Variable: ansible_pmrun_pass

Notes

Note

  • This plugin ignores the become_user supplied and uses pmrun’s own configuration to select the user.

Authors

  • Ansible Core Team

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.