I have successfully used the galaxy role to install Galaxy without any root access.

I have the following all set to the same non-privileged user:

galaxy_privileged_user: "{{ iu_galaxy_user.name }}"
galaxy_privsep_user: "{{ iu_galaxy_user.name }}"
galaxy_remote_users:
  root: "{{ iu_galaxy_user.name }}"
  privsep: "{{ iu_galaxy_user.name }}"
  errdocs: "{{ iu_galaxy_user.name }}"
  galaxy: "{{ iu_galaxy_user.name }}"


From: Sandra Maksimovic <sandra.maksimovic@mcri.edu.au>
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Hi Keith,

 

I did try that but it didn’t make any difference. I’ve even tried disabling privilege separation entirely but that had no effect either.

 

Thanks,

Sandra

 

From: Keith Suderman <suderman@jhu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 17 February 2021 5:42 AM
To: Sandra Maksimovic <sandra.maksimovic@mcri.edu.au>
Cc: galaxy-dev@lists.galaxyproject.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL][galaxy-dev] Re: Ansible Galaxy using root user for role installation

 

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Hi Sandra,

 

My initial hunch is that Ansible is trying to use root to create the galaxy_privsep_user.  Have you set galaxy_create_privsep_user to false in the group_vars?

 

Cheers,

Keith



On Feb 15, 2021, at 12:21 AM, Sandra Maksimovic <sandra.maksimovic@mcri.edu.au> wrote:

 

Hi there,

 

Would anyone happen to know why Ansible tries to connect to a remote host (CentOS 7) using 'root' during Galaxy role installation?

 

My playbook has been configured to connect to the remote host using a different user account via SSH, however, the role installation is not honoring this for some reason and continues to use root. The remote host has had SSH root login disabled for security reasons and setting various galaxy user/privsep/become/remote user variables in the group_vars has not had any effect.

 

TASK [galaxyproject.galaxy : Create galaxy_root] *

fatal: [server_name]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Invalid/incorrect password: Permission denied, please try again.\r\nPermission denied, please try again.\r\nroot@server_name: Permission denied (publickey,password).", "unreachable": true}

 

Thanks,

Sandra




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