Ansible error “ Could not find or access on Ansible Controller”

I am trying to write an ansible playbook to send certificates to my client machines from my local machine. The error message I get is:

msg": "Could not find or access '/etc/icinga2/pki/clienthostname.crt' on the Ansible Controller.\nIf you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option"

In the error output I also see this line:

AnsibleFileNotFound(file_name=source, paths=[to_text(p) for p in search]) ansible.errors.AnsibleFileNotFound: Could not find or access '/etc/icinga2/pki/clienthostname.crt' on the Ansible Controller..\nIf you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option"

I have added both the following to escalate my privileges but nothing has changed. I have also tried adding remote_src to my playbook like the error message suggested and although my playbook does compete without any errors the files are not actually copied over

become: yes | become_user: root

Here is my playbook

name: Send client certificates
hosts: all
become: yes
become_user: root
vars: masternode: localhost clientnode: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
tasks: -name: Copy files to remote host connection: local become: yes become_user: root copy: src: /etc/icinga2/pki/{{ clientnode }}.crt dest: /etc/icinga2/pki

I have confirmed that I am spelling the directory correctly and the file does exist. As a normal user I cannot access this directory as I get the Permission Denied error, so that is why I have added the become: yes and become_true to my playbook to elevate privileges but I am still getting an error.

1 Answer

Can you give only below and try

src: {{ clientnode }}.crt

What I mean, the files which you want to be copied, if present at same location, don't give the full path.