Problems with the PATH fo mas commands

[toby-griffiths]

Hi there,

I'm running the mac-dev-setup playbook on a remote machine, and it's failing on the mas account task, as follows…

TASK [geerlingguy.mac.mas : Get MAS account status] **************************************************************************************
task path: /Users/toby/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/geerlingguy/mac/roles/mas/tasks/main.yml:5
fatal: [marvin]: FAILED! => changed=false
  cmd: mas account
  failed_when_result: true
  msg: '[Errno 2] No such file or directory'
  rc: 2
  stderr: ''
  stderr_lines: <omitted>
  stdout: ''
  stdout_lines: <omitted>

I can run mas on the command line when logged in locally to the machine, without the full path, since /usr/local/bin is in my $PATH.

I've added a debug step to dump out the $PATH when using ansible and it seems to be missing /usr/local/bin for some reason…

TASK [geerlingguy.mac.mas : Debug mas cmd part 1] ****************************************************************************************
task path: /Users/toby/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/geerlingguy/mac/roles/mas/tasks/main.yml:5
changed: [marvin] => changed=true
  cmd:
  - echo
  - $PATH
  delta: '0:00:00.002861'
  end: '2021-06-25 20:38:35.642596'
  rc: 0
  start: '2021-06-25 20:38:35.639735'
  stderr: ''
  stderr_lines: <omitted>
  stdout: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
  stdout_lines: <omitted>

What's the best way to fix this? I can submit a PR, but where should I be adding /usr/local/bin to the PATH? For all users (/etc/profile) or to just the current users, perhaps?

[toby-griffiths]

I found this old post on your blog, however I don't have as /etc/profile.d/ directory. I think I'd need to add an include in the /etc/profile files to pick this up, right?

Sorry for all the questions. I just so I can get my PR done the right way.

[toby-griffiths]

So I've checked my /etc/paths file, on the target machine, and that includes the path, so I'm not where ansible is picking up it's $PATH from, and I can't find any reference articles on how to update this path when connecting to a mac remotely using ansible.

[BadDoggie]

On my new BigSur, I find that mas is installed in /opt/homebrew/bin.

As a temporary workaround you can update the file roles/mas/defaults/main.yml, and add the path, so for example lines 5-6 look like this now:

- name: Get MAS account status
  command: /opt/homebrew/bin/mas account

This needs to be done for actions 2 through 6.

YMMV - Worked OK for me...

[toby-griffiths]

@BadDoggie Thanks. Yeah I'd done that to get it working, but wondered what's the best way to resolve this for everyone.

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