I have the following Ansible task:
- name: foo
ansible.builtin.cron:
name: "bar"
minute: "*/5"
job: " /home/mytask.sh"
user: root
The goal is to update root's crontab (similiar to sudo crontab -e
). However I get the following error:
fatal: [192.168.1.11]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "must be privileged to use -u\n"}
Usually, in Ansible, the option become: true
is used to perform task as root, but the cron
module does not support it. How could I modify my task accordingly to my needs?
become: true
is a task/play/inventory level option not a module option. At task level for example you can use:
- name: foo
ansible.builtin.cron:
name: "bar"
minute: "*/5"
job: " /home/mytask.sh"
user: root
become: true