Does the role require sudo privileges? about ansible-nodejs-role HOT 3 OPEN

How I solved this problem:

roles:
  - role: nodesource.node
    become: yes

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With some additional trial/error, I realized by looking in the role.yml file used for testing that it calls the role and specifies sudo: yes when calling the role instead of having each task within the role define sudo: yes.

I updated my meta/main.yml file to look like this:

dependencies:
  - {
      role: "nodesource.node",
      sudo: yes
    }

and the script worked as expected without error.

I would just close this issue as solved, but it begs the question in my mind: when will we ever not call this role with sudo: yes? If it is required, then would it be easier to just update the tasks/main.yml to put that on each task and then folks do not need to worry about setting it when calling the role?

Thoughts appreciated.

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@conorgil I also highly recommend to use this in addition to your recommendation:
sudo_user: "{{ ansible_ssh_user}}".

Running purely as sudo will run commands as root and leave applications unavailable to the default user.

Just because the script passes, it doesn't mean the user is able to access all of these cool tools (without sudo - best practice!).

I would also recommend changing sudo to become and sudo_user to become_user purely because the sudo and sudo_user modules have been deprecated in later releases.

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