Ansible 1.9.1 'become' and sudo issue - bash

Question

I am trying to run an extremely simple playbook to test a new Ansible setup.
When using the 'new' Ansible Privilege Escalation config options in my ansible.cfg file:
[defaults]
host_key_checking=false
log_path=./logs/ansible.log
executable=/bin/bash
#callback_plugins=./lib/callback_plugins
######
[privilege_escalation]
become=True
become_method='sudo'
become_user='tstuser01'
become_ask_pass=False
[ssh_connection]
scp_if_ssh=True
I get the following error:
fatal: [webserver1.local] => Internal Error: this module does not support running commands via 'sudo'
FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting
The playbook is also very simple:
# Checks the hosts provisioned by midrange
---
- name: Test su connecting as current user
hosts: all
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: "sudo to configued user -- tstuser01"
#action: ping
command: /usr/bin/whoami
I am not sure if there is something broken in Ansible 1.9.1 or if I am doing something wrong. Surely the 'command' module in Ansible allows running commands as sudo.

Answer 1

The issue is with configuration; I also took it as an example and got the same problem. After playing awhile I noticed that the following works:
1) deprecated sudo:
---
- hosts: all
sudo: yes
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: "sudo to root"
command: /usr/bin/whoami
2) new become
---
- hosts: all
become: yes
become_method: sudo
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: "sudo to root"
command: /usr/bin/whoami
3) using ansible.cfg:
[privilege_escalation]
become = yes
become_method = sudo
and then in a playbook:
---
- hosts: all
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: "sudo to root"
command: /usr/bin/whoami
since you "becoming" tstuser01 (not a root like me), please play a bit, probably user name should not be quoted too:
become_user = tstuser01
at least this is the way I define remote_user in ansible.cfg and it works... My issue resolved, hope yours too

Answer 2

I think you should use the sudo directive in the hosts section so that subsequent tasks can run with sudo privileges unless you explicitly specified sudo:no in a task.
Here's your playbook that I've modified to use sudo directive.
# Checks the hosts provisioned by midrange
---
- hosts: all
sudo: yes
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: "sudo to configued user -- tstuser01"
command: /usr/bin/whoami