Problem: change user used for SSH connections

[Kimbaras]

Issue

Not sure if it's a bug or it's me that was unable to find anything about it, but basically, is there a way to change the user used for the initial SSH connections?

Semaphore is installed with a dedicated user "semaphore".
The remote servers are configured to use a specific user for ansible task "itansible".

Seems that, even with "ansible_user=itansible" set in environment variables the SSH connection is initiated as semaphore@ which fails.

Seems that Semaphore is ignoring the environment variable?
Or it's me setting wrongly?

From my understanding, the "Environment variables" should be something you could add inside the "ansible.cfg", is that right?

I've made also that test, editing "ansible.cfg" and that worked as expected, the SSH connection was initiated as itansible, while Semaphore still tried to connect as "semaphore@"

Impact

Ansible (task execution)

Installation method

Package

Database

Postgres

Browser

No response

Semaphore Version

2.15.4-8e8d81c-1753268666

Ansible Version

ansible [core 2.16.14]

Logs & errors

No response

Manual installation - system information

Running on Ubuntu 22.04 (5.15.0-144-generic)

Configuration

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Additional information

There seems it was a similar question asked few years ago #382 but it's not a real solution (IMHO)

[EHEX-schildt]

You want key: ansible_user value:itansible as extra vars(cli equivalent -e ansible_user=itansible).

If you want to use Environment vars it is also possible: the key is ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER in that case
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#default-remote-user

[septatrix]

I too have set ansible_user in my hosts INI file but it is not respected

[fiftin]

Hello,

You should ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER if you providing environment variable, or remote_user if you providing extra variable.

[septatrix]

That doesn't work. I have set all of the below, and also set ansible_user in the inventory to pi...

Yet I still always get an error:

Task failed: Failed to connect to the host via ssh: No user exists for uid 63841

[septatrix]

Hm upon looking further into this, I think I might be running into paramiko/paramiko#2279, will need to investigate further