{"id":1491,"date":"2019-08-02T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T03:43:38","slug":"how-to-get-ansible-to-load-bash_profile-on-become_user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/how-to-get-ansible-to-load-bash_profile-on-become_user\/","title":{"rendered":"[How to] get Ansible to load .bash_profile on become_user"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ansible is a very flexible automation tool. It can be used for a wide range of system administration task and also infrastructure administration task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many a times, for application administrators, there is a requirement to sudo to a different user specific to an application. The application or user may need to pull in information from the bashrc or bash_profile to execute certain tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make Ansible run as a different user, we use become_user. 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