Ansible: ansible_user in inventory vs remote_user in playbook
Solution 1
You're likely running into a common issue: the published ansible docs are for the development version (2.0 right now), and we don't keep the old ones around. It's a big point of contention... Assuming you're using something pre-2.0, the inventory var name you need is ansible_ssh_user
. ansible_user
works in 2.0 (as does ansible_ssh_user
- it gets aliased in).
Solution 2
I usually add my remote username in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
as follows:
remote_user = MY_REMOTE_USERNAME
This way it is not required to configure ansible_user in the inventory file for each host entry.
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Updated on November 29, 2020Comments
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techraf over 3 years
I am trying to run an Ansible playbook against a server using an account other than the one I am logged on the control machine. I tried to specify an
ansible_user
in the inventory file according to the documentation on Inventory:[srv1] 192.168.1.146 ansible_connection=ssh ansible_user=user1
However Ansible called with
ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml -vvvv
prints the following:GATHERING FACTS *************************************************************** <192.168.1.146> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: techraf
What worked for me was adding the
remote_user
argument to the playbook:- hosts: srv1 remote_user: user1
Now the same Ansible command connects as
user1
:GATHERING FACTS *************************************************************** <192.168.1.146> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: user1
Also adding
remote_user
variable toansible.cfg
makes Ansible use the intended user instead of the logged-on one.Are the
ansible_user
in inventory file andremote_user
in playbook/ansible.cfg
for different purposes?What is the
ansible_user
used for? Or why doesn't Ansible observe the setting in the inventory?-
glerYbo almost 5 years
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Yoshinori Kawasaki over 8 yearsChanging
ansible_user
toansible_ssh_user
worked for me with ansible 1.9.4.