How to change a directory for temporal files on a remote host?

[ailjushkin]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

become

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.4.2.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.5 (default, Aug 29 2016, 10:12:21) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)]

CONFIGURATION

No changes.

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Control host:

Linux 02b9e1074767 4.9.60-linuxkit-aufs #1 SMP Mon Nov 6 16:00:12 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Controlled host:

Linux srv2-drse-im01.net.billing.ru 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 13 10:46:25 EDT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

SUMMARY

I have to work under sudo. Unfortunately, our admins set restriction on using home folders under the root. The root user cannot do anything under the home directory thus ansible says that it cannot place its files there. How to use different folder for the ansible working directory?

EXPECTED RESULTS

I change a temp ansible path and all works fine.

ACTUAL RESULTS

Permisson denied while ansible works in the ~/.ansible folder.

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[ailjushkin]

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[sivel]

List Information

Hi!

Thanks very much for your interest in Ansible. It sincerely means a lot to us.

This appears to be a user question, and we'd like to direct these kinds of things to either the mailing list or the IRC channel.

• IRC: #ansible on irc.freenode.net
• mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-project

If you can stop by there, we'd appreciate it. This allows us to keep the issue tracker for bugs, pull requests, RFEs and the like.

Thank you once again and we look forward to seeing you on the list or IRC. Thanks!

[alikins]

See also #31022 (part of 2.5 roadmap https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_5.rst#engine-improvements)