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ansible local_action returns error "invalid output was: [sudo via ansible, key=xxx] password:"

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Clipped on: 2016-01-27

I've being trying to run this ansible playbook to get a AWS resource tags:

- name: list resource tags local_action: ec2_tag resource=i-abcdefg region=us-east-1 state=list register: result

And this error is returned:

failed: [ec2-11-222-333-444.compute-1.amazonaws.com] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false} invalid output was: [sudo via ansible, key=heoqwlqnhxlxyzwnxmtbvmdtvmvjbsux] password:

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

How can I fix that

asked Jun 25 '14 at 16:23
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douglaslps
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You cannot run this local_action as root. Change your task to be:

- name: list resource tags sudo: false local_action: ec2_tag resource=i-abcdefg region=us-east-1 state=list register: result

answered Jun 25 '14 at 16:23
douglaslps
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Any idea why this is? – Eli Jun 23 '15 at 21:58
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Perhaps because it would require a password and ansible cannot provide it. – douglaslps Jun 24 '15 at 12:04

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