Sudo support operational in both playbooks and main program. Implementation could use some cleanup.

examples/playbooks/intro_example.yml

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 - hosts: all
   user: root
 
+# could have also have done:
+#  user: mdehaan
+#  sudo: True
+
   # make these variables available inside of templates
   # for when we use the 'template' action/module later on...
 

lib/ansible/connection.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import paramiko
 import traceback
 import os
 import time
+import random
 from ansible import errors
 
 ################################################
@@ -80,36 +81,47 @@ class ParamikoConnection(object):
         self.ssh = self._get_conn()
         return self
 
-    def exec_command(self, cmd, sudoable=True):
+    def exec_command(self, cmd, tmp_path, sudoable=False):
-
         ''' run a command on the remote host '''
         if not self.runner.sudo or not sudoable: 
             stdin, stdout, stderr = self.ssh.exec_command(cmd)
             return (stdin, stdout, stderr)
         else:
+            # percalculated tmp_path is ONLY required for sudo usage
+            if tmp_path is None:
+                raise Exception("expecting tmp_path")
+            r = random.randint(0,99999)
+            
+            # invoke command using a new connection over sudo
+            result_file = os.path.join(tmp_path, "sudo_result.%s" % r)
             self.ssh.close()
             ssh_sudo = self._get_conn()
             sudo_chan = ssh_sudo.invoke_shell()
             sudo_chan.send("sudo -s\n")
-            sudo_chan.send("echo 'START==>';%s;echo '<==STOP'\n" % cmd)
+
-            timeout = 60 # make configurable?
+            # to avoid ssh expect logic, redirect output to file and move the
+            # file when we are done with it...
+            sudo_chan.send("(%s >%s_pre 2>/dev/null ; mv %s_pre %s) &\n" % (cmd, result_file, result_file, result_file))
             time.sleep(1)
-            while not sudo_chan.recv_ready():
-                time.sleep(1)
-                timeout -= 1
-                if timeout < 0:
-                    return (None, json.dumps(dict(failed=True, msg="sudo timeout")), '')
-            out = sudo_chan.recv(2058)
             sudo_chan.close()
             self.ssh = self._get_conn()
-            out = self._expect_like(out)
-            return (None, out, '')
 
-    def _expect_like(self, msg):
+            # now load the results of the JSON execution...
-        ''' hack to make invoke_shell more or less work for sudo usage '''
+            # FIXME: really need some timeout logic here
-        left = msg.rindex("START==>")
+            sftp = self.ssh.open_sftp()
-        right = msg.rindex("<==STOP")
+            while True:
-        return msg[left+8:right].lstrip().rstrip()
+                # print "waiting on %s" % result_file
+                time.sleep(1)
+                try:
+                    stat = sftp.stat(result_file)
+                    break
+                except IOError:
+                    pass
+            sftp.close()
+            # TODO: see if there's a SFTP way to just get the file contents w/o saving
+            # to disk vs this hack...
+            stdin, stdout, stderr = self.ssh.exec_command("cat %s" % result_file)
+            return (stdin, stdout, stderr)
 
     def put_file(self, in_path, out_path):
         ''' transfer a file from local to remote '''

lib/ansible/playbook.py

@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ class PlayBook(object):
     # *****************************************************
 
     def _run_module(self, pattern, host_list, module, args, remote_user, 
-        async_seconds, async_poll_interval, only_if):
+        async_seconds, async_poll_interval, only_if, sudo):
         ''' run a particular module step in a playbook '''
 
         hosts = [ h for h in host_list if (h not in self.stats.failures) and (h not in self.stats.dark)]
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ class PlayBook(object):
             remote_port=self.remote_port,
             setup_cache=SETUP_CACHE, basedir=self.basedir,
             conditional=only_if, callbacks=self.runner_callbacks,
+            sudo=sudo
         )
 
         if async_seconds == 0:
@@ -278,7 +279,7 @@ class PlayBook(object):
     # *****************************************************
 
     def _run_task(self, pattern=None, host_list=None, task=None, 
-        remote_user=None, handlers=None, conditional=False):
+        remote_user=None, handlers=None, conditional=False, sudo=False):
         ''' run a single task in the playbook and recursively run any subtasks.  '''
 
         # load the module name and parameters from the task entry
@@ -307,7 +308,7 @@ class PlayBook(object):
         # run the task in parallel
         results = self._run_module(pattern, host_list, module_name, 
             module_args, remote_user, async_seconds, 
-            async_poll_interval, only_if)
+            async_poll_interval, only_if, sudo)
 
         self.stats.compute(results)
 
@@ -402,7 +403,7 @@ class PlayBook(object):
 
     # *****************************************************
 
-    def _do_setup_step(self, pattern, vars, user, port, vars_files=None):
+    def _do_setup_step(self, pattern, vars, user, port, sudo, vars_files=None):
         ''' push variables down to the systems and get variables+facts back up '''
 
         # this enables conditional includes like $facter_os.yml and is only done
@@ -432,7 +433,7 @@ class PlayBook(object):
             timeout=self.timeout, remote_user=user,
             remote_pass=self.remote_pass, remote_port=self.remote_port,
             setup_cache=SETUP_CACHE,
-            callbacks=self.runner_callbacks,
+            callbacks=self.runner_callbacks, sudo=sudo,
         ).run()
         self.stats.compute(setup_results, setup=True)
 
@@ -464,15 +465,16 @@ class PlayBook(object):
         handlers   = pg.get('handlers', [])
         user       = pg.get('user', C.DEFAULT_REMOTE_USER)
         port       = pg.get('port', C.DEFAULT_REMOTE_PORT)
+        sudo       = pg.get('sudo', False)
 
         self.callbacks.on_play_start(pattern)
 
         # push any variables down to the system # and get facts/ohai/other data back up
-        self._do_setup_step(pattern, vars, user, port, None)
+        self._do_setup_step(pattern, vars, user, port, sudo, None)
          
         # now with that data, handle contentional variable file imports!
         if len(vars_files) > 0:
-            self._do_setup_step(pattern, vars, user, port, vars_files)
+            self._do_setup_step(pattern, vars, user, port, sudo, vars_files)
 
         # run all the top level tasks, these get run on every node
         for task in tasks:
@@ -482,6 +484,7 @@ class PlayBook(object):
                 task=task, 
                 handlers=handlers,
                 remote_user=user,
+                sudo=sudo
             )
 
         # handlers only run on certain nodes, they are flagged by _flag_handlers
@@ -499,7 +502,8 @@ class PlayBook(object):
                    handlers=[],
                    host_list=triggered_by,
                    conditional=True,
-                   remote_user=user
+                   remote_user=user,
+                   sudo=sudo
                 )
 
         # end of execution for this particular pattern.  Multiple patterns

lib/ansible/runner.py

@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ class Runner(object):
         for filename in files:
             if not filename.startswith('/tmp/'):
                 raise Exception("not going to happen")
-            self._exec_command(conn, "rm -rf %s" % filename)
+            self._exec_command(conn, "rm -rf %s" % filename, None)
 
     # *****************************************************
 
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ class Runner(object):
         ''' transfers a module file to the remote side to execute it, but does not execute it yet '''
 
         outpath = self._copy_module(conn, tmp, module)
-        self._exec_command(conn, "chmod +x %s" % outpath)
+        self._exec_command(conn, "chmod +x %s" % outpath, tmp)
         return outpath
 
     # *****************************************************
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ class Runner(object):
             if self.remote_user == 'root':
                 args = "%s metadata=/etc/ansible/setup" % args
             else:
-                args = "%s metadata=~/.ansible/setup" % args
+                args = "%s metadata=/home/%s/.ansible/setup" % (args, self.remote_user)
         return args   
  
     # *****************************************************
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ class Runner(object):
             cmd = "%s %s" % (remote_module_path, argsfile)
         else:
             cmd = " ".join([str(x) for x in [remote_module_path, async_jid, async_limit, async_module, argsfile]])
-        return [ self._exec_command(conn, cmd, sudoable=True), client_executed_str ]
+        return [ self._exec_command(conn, cmd, tmp, sudoable=True), client_executed_str ]
 
     # *****************************************************
 
@@ -555,14 +555,14 @@ class Runner(object):
 
     # *****************************************************
 
-    def _exec_command(self, conn, cmd, sudoable=False):
+    def _exec_command(self, conn, cmd, tmp, sudoable=False):
         ''' execute a command string over SSH, return the output '''
 
         msg = '%s: %s' % (self.module_name, cmd)
         # log remote command execution
-        conn.exec_command('/usr/bin/logger -t ansible -p auth.info "%s"' % msg)
+        conn.exec_command('/usr/bin/logger -t ansible -p auth.info "%s"' % msg, None)
         # now run actual command
-        stdin, stdout, stderr = conn.exec_command(cmd, sudoable=sudoable)
+        stdin, stdout, stderr = conn.exec_command(cmd, tmp, sudoable=sudoable)
         if type(stdout) != str:
             return "\n".join(stdout.readlines())
         else:
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ class Runner(object):
     def _get_tmp_path(self, conn):
         ''' gets a temporary path on a remote box '''
 
-        result = self._exec_command(conn, "mktemp -d /tmp/ansible.XXXXXX", sudoable=False)
+        result = self._exec_command(conn, "mktemp -d /tmp/ansible.XXXXXX", None, sudoable=False)
         cleaned = result.split("\n")[0].strip() + '/'
         return cleaned