Description of problem: When running ansible-playbook manually, the job fails upon creating kubevirt.retry file, unless run as root. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ansible-playbook 2.6.11 Client Version: v0.13.0 Server Version: v0.13.0 How reproducible: Tried once and it happened. Steps to Reproduce: 1. ssh to cluster's master node, as "cloud-user" user. $ ssh cloud-user.240.192 -i ~/.ssh/cnv-qe-jenkins.key 2. Try running the following command: $ ansible-playbook -i /home/cloud-user/kubevirt-ansible.inv -u cloud-user --private-key /home/cloud-user/.ssh/id_rsa -e@/usr/share/ansible/kubevirt-ansible/vars/all.yml -e@/usr/share/ansible/kubevirt-ansible/vars/cnv.yml -e registry_url=brew-pulp-docker01.web.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com:8888 /usr/share/ansible/kubevirt-ansible/playbooks/kubevirt.yml -e deploy_sriov_plugin=false Actual results: Command fails with the following "permission denied" error: WARNING]: Could not create retry file '/usr/share/ansible/kubevirt-ansible/playbooks/kubevirt.retry'. [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/usr/share/ansible/kubevirt-ansible/playbooks/kubevirt.retry' Expected results: Command should complete successfully for standard user. Workaround: Run the command as root: $ sudo ansible-playbook -i /home/cloud-user/kubevirt-ansible.inv -u cloud-user --private-key /home/cloud-user/.ssh/id_rsa -e@/usr/share/ansible/kubevirt-ansible/vars/all.yml -e@/usr/share/ansible/kubevirt-ansible/vars/cnv.yml -e registry_url=brew-pulp-docker01.web.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com:8888 /usr/share/ansible/kubevirt-ansible/playbooks/kubevirt.yml -e deploy_sriov_plugin=false
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1664276 ***