Ansible Privilege Escalation

External

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/become.html

Internal

• Ansible Concepts

Overview

To ask for privilege escalation password, use:

ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass

Task-Level Privilege Escalation

Privilege escalation on a task basis is controlled with the following privilege escalation task configuration attributes:

• become
• become_exe
• become_flags
• become_method
• become_user

Become Plugins

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/become.html#become-plugins