[ansible-pylibssh] Privilege escalation not working for linux host

[ganeshrn]

SUMMARY

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

ANSIBLE VERSION

Privilege escalation not working for Linux host using libssh transport

CONFIGURATION

[persistent_connection]
connect_timeout = 100
command_timeout = 100
ssh_type = libssh

OS / ENVIRONMENT

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

- hosts: fedora
  gather_facts: no
  connection: ansible.netcommon.libssh

  tasks:
  - name: run commands
    command:
      cmd: "{{ item }}"
    loop:
    - "ls -al"
    become: true
    register: result

EXPECTED RESULTS

ACTUAL RESULTS

Privilege escalation fails

[webknjaz]

Ref: https://github.com/ansible/pylibssh/issues/16