Can't get sudo commands working with Ansible

Question

I'm trying to use Ansible to provision a Vagrant box and a EC2 server. It works fine on the Vagrant box when using --connection=local, but it seems to just ignore the sudo: True line

When I do this:

---
- hosts: remote
  vars_files:
    - vars.yml
  gather_facts: false
  sudo: True
  remote_user: root

  tasks:
  - name: test
    file: state=directory path=~/test

It creates the directory in the normal user's home directory, owned by the normal user. The user doesn't have a password, and I can use commands with sudo without being prompted for one. What am I missing?

Answer 1

You need to also add "sudo_user" option.

Details:
sudo uses the value of sudo_user to obtain username and sudo_user defaults to root, so in your example you login as root (this username came from "remote_user") and do
sudo su - root -c "mkdir ~/test"

http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#sudo-user

And yes, the directory was made in sudo_user home.