Hi all,

I recently migrated our AIX repository server (NIM and Toolbox) from AIX 7.2 to AIX 7.3. Curious as I was how Ansible would perform on the AIX platform, I installed ansible.noarch 2.9.14-1.

When running playbooks through the root user everything works fine. When running the same playbooks through a non-root user (ansible) I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 62, in <module>
import ansible.constants as C
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ansible/constants.py", line 174, in <module>
config = ConfigManager()
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 283, in __init__
self._config_file = find_ini_config_file(self.WARNINGS)
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 240, in find_ini_config_file
potential_paths.append(unfrackpath("~/.ansible.cfg", follow=False))
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ansible/utils/path.py", line 55, in unfrackpath
b_basedir = to_bytes(os.getcwd(), errors='surrogate_or_strict')
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

The user ansible is member of the group ansible. For the group ansible I created a file /etc/sudoers.d/ansible with the following content:
%ansible ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

In /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg the privilege escalation section looks like this:
[privilege_escalation]
become=True
become_method=sudo
become_user=root
become_ask_pass=False

We have the same construction on our Red Hat 8.5 Ansible server and on that server everything works flawless.

Any ideas would be welcome?

Regards,

Philip.