community.general.sesu become – CA Privileged Access Manager

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.sesu.

Synopsis

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

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

become_exe

string

sesu executable.

Default: "sesu"

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [privilege_escalation]
become_exe = sesu

    [sesu_become_plugin]
executable = sesu

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_BECOME_EXE

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_SESU_EXE

  • Variable: ansible_become_exe

  • Variable: ansible_sesu_exe

become_flags

string

Options to pass to sesu.

Default: "-H -S -n"

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [privilege_escalation]
become_flags = -H -S -n

    [sesu_become_plugin]
flags = -H -S -n

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_BECOME_FLAGS

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_SESU_FLAGS

  • Variable: ansible_become_flags

  • Variable: ansible_sesu_flags

become_pass

string

Password to pass to sesu.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [sesu_become_plugin]
password = VALUE

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_BECOME_PASS

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_SESU_PASS

  • Variable: ansible_become_password

  • Variable: ansible_become_pass

  • Variable: ansible_sesu_pass

become_user

string

User you ‘become’ to execute the task.

Default: ""

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [privilege_escalation]
become_user = ""

    [sesu_become_plugin]
user = ""

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_BECOME_USER

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_SESU_USER

  • Variable: ansible_become_user

  • Variable: ansible_sesu_user

Authors

  • ansible (@nekonyuu)

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.