Change file permission — Ansible module file

How to change file or directory permission with Ansible? I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code to change chmod and group of a test.txt file.

How to change file or directory permission with Ansible?

I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code.

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

Ansible change file/directory permission

Today we’re talking about the Ansible module file.

The full name is ansible.builtin.file, which means that is part of the collection of modules “builtin” with ansible and shipped with it.

It’s a module pretty stable and out for years.

It works in a different variety of operating systems.

It manages files and file properties.

For Windows targets, use the `ansible.windows.win_file` module instead.

Main Parameters

• path string (dest, name) — file path