ansible_become_ask_pass in group_vars does not reliably trigger an
interactive sudo prompt for ansible_connection=local — Ansible cannot
prompt per-host mid-play. The fix is a wrapper script that passes
-K / --ask-become-pass before any play execution.
- infrastructure/bin/install_workstation.sh: auto-detects FQDN, adds
--ask-become-pass, passes extra args through. Run from repo root:
./infrastructure/bin/install_workstation.sh
make workstation
- Makefile: add 'workstation' target pointing to the script
- group_vars/workstations.yml: drop ansible_become_ask_pass (does not
work), keep ansible_pipelining=false (needed for SSH workstations
with sudo passwords — pipelining replaces stdin, breaking sudo -S)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Personal Macs require a sudo password; the global become_ask_pass=False
and pipelining=True combination silently swallows the prompt and fails.
- ansible_become_ask_pass: true → Ansible prompts for sudo password
- ansible_pipelining: false → sudo can read stdin for the password;
pipelining replaces stdin with a pipe
which sudo treats as non-interactive and
refuses to ask for a password at all.
Applies to [workstations] group (mac + linux). Has no effect on
[workstations_windows] (WinRM auth is separate from become).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
