I’ve started looking at Ansible to manage all the laptops, VMs, SBCs that I have running Arch Got the ol’ pacman installs / updates working fine, but I’m having some problems understanding how to setup AUR to install some of those packages.

Main issue is where Ansible is basically doing everything as root, and AUR helpers don’t want to run as root, so ok, create a 2nd non-root user first…

But even installing an AUR helper (yay) brings problems:

I can setup a folder in /tmp/aur , I can git clone the yay package, but then I have no idea how to run makepkg or then yay as that non-root user.

Does anyone have this already figured out?

Or… am I going about this the wrong way?

  • SayCyberOnceMore
    OPEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    Thanks for the pointer, but no, I’m not SSHing as root. And PermitRootLogin no is configured, so all good there.

    Turns out I start the entire sequence as become, so I had to learn about changing users with ansible-become variables

    Still have a few bugs to work out, but thanks for getting me on track