Ansible troubleshooting — missing sudo password and incorrect sudo password

How to reproduce the `missing sudo password` and `incorrect sudo password` fatal errors and how to solve it!

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about missing sudo password and incorrect sudo password.

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

demo

The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live demo to show you practically the missing sudo password and incorrect sudo password and how to solve it!

• missingsudopassword_error.yml

---
- name: debug module demo
  hosts: all
  become: true
  tasks:
    - name: root test
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        msg: "privilege escalation successful"

execution

$ ansible-playbook -i demo/inventory troubleshooting/missingsudopassword_error.yml
PLAY [debug module demo] *********************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts]…