Not possible to source .bashrc with Ansible

Question

I can ssh to the remote host and do a source /home/username/.bashrc - everything works fine. However if I do:

- name: source bashrc
  sudo: no
          


        

Answer 1

I found become as best solution:

- name: Source .bashrc
  shell: . .bashrc
  become: true

You can change the user by adding (default: root):

- name: Source .bashrc
  shell: . .bashrc
  become: true
  become-user: {your_remote_user}

More info here: Ansible become