sudo: a password is required - django-admin.py inspectdb

[TinajaLabs]

Running on Centos 7

$  ansible --version
ansible 2.7.1
  python version = 2.7.10 (default, Aug 17 2018, 17:41:52) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.0 (clang-1000.0.42)]

fatal:
  [charts]:
    FAILED! => {
      "changed": false,
      ` "module_stderr": "Shared connection to <ipaddress> closed.\r\n",
      "module_stdout": "\u001b]0;c7h-template.cbase.ecm\u0007sudo: a password is required\r\n",
      "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
      "rc": 1
    }

When running this part of django-admin.yml

- name: django-admin.py - Inspect graphite db
  command: django-admin.py inspectdb
  environment:
    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: graphite.settings
    PYTHONPATH: "{{ graphite_install_path}}/webapp/"
  become: true
  become_user: "{{ graphite_user }}"
  register: result
  changed_when: false

Any tips appreciated,
Chris.

[nsg]

I have noticed that "sudo: a password is required" and similar error messages are used a lot of different "I can't connect or auth" type of errors. Most likely it's either an connection, or an privilege escalation error.

I usually add a few "-v" like -vvvvv to the command to see the actual command that Ansible tries to execute and runs it manually to track these problems down.

A few places to look at are, the ssh-agent or similar, keyrings, hanging existing connections to that server, ssh config (global and user specific), ansible.cfg (global, user and local). If you are able to ssh in to the server by executing the command manually, try to figure out the difference between your environment and the environment Ansible executes the command.

Considered that this issue is a few weeks old, I hope you already have solved it :)

[TinajaLabs]

Thanks. I'll look it up tomorrow.