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how to start apache2 with ansible if server only allow to access it with a specific user account before you can restart a service?

how to use ansible to restart an apache2 server on ubuntu 20.04, if by remotely you can only access it with a specific user before you can login as root or do a sudo command to restart the apache2 or other services?

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Bobby Iliev • March 30, 2022

Hello,

You can add become: true to define that tasks should be executed with privilege escalation (sudo) by default.

Can you share your playbook here?

For more information I could also suggest this step-by-step tutorial here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-the-apache-web-server-on-ubuntu-20-04

Best,

Bobby

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