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From: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
To: Nick <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Initial Postgres admin account setup using Ansible?
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:10:11 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Dec 31, 2024, at 13:31, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the proper (secure) way to let the Ansible POSIX user manage
> postgres? It seems there should be a fully automated way to bootstrap
> an Ansible user for `postgres`.

This is generally done with "become" and "become_user" in a shell command, something like:

- name: Do something as the postgres user
  ansible.builtin.shell: "psql ..."
  register: pgbackrest_which_output
  become: true
  become_user: postgres

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