Document that synchronize in 2.0.0.x has broken sudo behaviour.

Part of the changes for #13825
pull/18777/head
Toshio Kuratomi 9 years ago committed by Matt Clay
parent f4c9c4596f
commit 5f35d0d597

@ -167,8 +167,10 @@ options:
notes:
- rsync must be installed on both the local and remote host.
- For the C(synchronize) module, the "local host" is the host `the synchronize task originates on`, and the "destination host" is the host `synchronize is connecting to`.
- "The user and permissions for the synchronize `src` are those of the user running the Ansible task on the local host, or the `become_user` if `become: yes` is active. synchronize will attempt to escalate privileges to the become_user `on the local host`."
- The user and permissions for the synchronize `dest` are those of the `remote_user` on the destination host. If you require permissions `other` than those of the remote_user, you must specify this with a sudo command inside the C(rsync_path) option in the task; for example, `rsync_path="sudo rsync"`.
- The "local host" can be changed to a different host by using `delegate_to:`. This enables copying between two remote hosts or entirely on one remote machine.
- "The user and permissions for the synchronize `src` are those of the user running the Ansible task on the local host (or the remote_user for a delegate_to host when delegate_to is used).
- The user and permissions for the synchronize `dest` are those of the `remote_user` on the destination host or the `become_user` if `become: yes` is active.
- In 2.0.0.0 a bug in the synchronize module made become occur on the "local host". This was fixed in 2.0.1.
- Expect that dest=~/x will be ~<remote_user>/x even if using sudo.
- Inspect the verbose output to validate the destination user/host/path
are what was expected.
@ -198,24 +200,27 @@ synchronize: src=some/relative/path dest=/some/absolute/path archive=no links=ye
# Synchronization of two paths both on the control machine
local_action: synchronize src=some/relative/path dest=/some/absolute/path
# Synchronization of src on the inventory host to the dest on the localhost in
pull mode
# Synchronization of src on the inventory host to the dest on the localhost in pull mode
synchronize: mode=pull src=some/relative/path dest=/some/absolute/path
# Synchronization of src on delegate host to dest on the current inventory host.
# If delegate_to is set to the current inventory host, this can be used to synchronize
# two directories on that host.
synchronize:
src: some/relative/path
dest: /some/absolute/path
src: /first/absolute/path
dest: /second/absolute/path
delegate_to: delegate.host
# Synchronize two directories on one remote host.
synchronize:
src: /first/absolute/path
dest: /second/absolute/path
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
# Synchronize and delete files in dest on the remote host that are not found in src of localhost.
synchronize: src=some/relative/path dest=/some/absolute/path delete=yes
# Synchronize using an alternate rsync command
# This specific command is granted sudo privileges on the destination
synchronize: src=some/relative/path dest=/some/absolute/path rsync_path="sudo rsync"
# This specific command is granted su privileges on the destination
synchronize: src=some/relative/path dest=/some/absolute/path rsync_path="su -c rsync"
# Example .rsync-filter file in the source directory
- var # exclude any path whose last part is 'var'

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