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Made more legible by removing unnecessary punctuation, formatting special words (e.g. `sudo`), and a few other minor grammatical changes.
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@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Ansible can use existing privilege escalation systems to allow a user to execute
Become
``````
Ansible allows you 'become' another user, different from the user that logged into the machine (remote user). This is done using existing
privilege escalation tools, which you probably already use or have configured, like 'sudo', 'su', 'pfexec', 'doas', 'pbrun', 'dzdo', and others.
Ansible allows you to 'become' another user, different from the user that logged into the machine (remote user). This is done using existing
privilege escalation tools, which you probably already use or have configured, like `sudo`, `su`, `pfexec`, `doas`, `pbrun`, `dzdo`, and others.
.. note:: Before 1.9 Ansible mostly allowed the use of `sudo` and a limited use of `su` to allow a login/remote user to become a different user
@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ become
set to 'true'/'yes' to activate privilege escalation.
become_user
set to user with desired privileges, the user you 'become', NOT the user you login as. Does NOT imply `become: yes`, to allow it to be set at host level.
set to user with desired privileges — the user you 'become', NOT the user you login as. Does NOT imply `become: yes`, to allow it to be set at host level.
become_method
at play or task level overrides the default method set in ansible.cfg, set to 'sudo'/'su'/'pbrun'/'pfexec'/'doas'/'dzdo'
(at play or task level) overrides the default method set in ansible.cfg, set to `sudo`/`su`/`pbrun`/`pfexec`/`doas`/`dzdo`
For example, to manage a system service (which requires ``root`` privileges) when connected as a non-``root`` user (this takes advantage of the fact that the default value of ``become_user`` is ``root``)::