Permission denied when executing module using ansible on host machine

Question

through ansible sever executing module on host ,but for all command it's shows permission denied .

| FAILED! => {

    "ansible_facts": {

        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"

    },

    "changed": false,

    "cmd": "apt-get update",

    "msg": "E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)\nE: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/\nW: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)\nW: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)",

    "rc": 100,

    "stderr": "E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)\nE: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/\nW: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)\nW: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)\n",

    "stderr_lines": [

        "E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)",

        "E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/",

        "W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)",

        "W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)"

    ],

    "stdout": "Reading package lists...\n",

    "stdout_lines": [

        "Reading package lists..."

    ]

}

Answer 1

Hi@Shamsher,

This error usually occurs when their is no valid public key set for the target server. First check whether you have valid public and private key generated for the user which you are using. Keep public key in target server and private key in control server. After that get the path for private key and configure it in ansible.cfg file.