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docs: add some examples to the documentation for become
there were some questions on `#ansible` about the `become` suite of directives, and I thought it would be helpful if this document had an example or two.
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become_method
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at play or task level overrides the default method set in ansible.cfg, set to 'sudo'/'su'/'pbrun'/'pfexec'/'doas'/'dzdo'
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For example, to manage a system service (which requires ``root`` privileges) when connected as a non-``root`` user (this takes advantage of the fact that the default value of ``become_user`` is ``root``)::
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- name: Ensure the httpd service is running
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service:
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name: httpd
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state: running
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become: true
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To run a command as the ``apache`` user::
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- name: Run a command as the apache uesr
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command: somecommand
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become: true
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become_user: apache
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Connection variables
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@ -48,6 +62,9 @@ ansible_become_user
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ansible_become_pass
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allows you to set the privilege escalation password
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For example, if you want to run all tasks as ``root`` on a server named ``webserver``, but you can only connect as the ``manager`` user, you could use an inventory entry like this::
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webserver ansible_user=manager ansible_become=true
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New command line options
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