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Ansible troubleshooting — chgrp failed

When you try to change permission to file your Ansible Playbook might end up with “chgrp failed” error. Let’s investigate together why this error happens and how to solve it!

Luca Berton
3 min readSep 9, 2021

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about chgrp failed error.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

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The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live demo to show you practically the chgrp failed error and how to solve it!

  • fix_permission.sh
# groups devops
devops : wheel
# useradd -a -G users devops
# groups devops
devops : wheel users
# id devops
uid=1001(devops) gid=10(wheel) groups=10(wheel),100(users)

Recap

Now you know better how to troubleshoot the Ansible chgrp failed error.
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Luca Berton
Luca Berton

Written by Luca Berton

I help creative Automation DevOps, Cloud Engineer, System Administrator, and IT Professional to succeed with Ansible Technology to automate more things everyday

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