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I'm running ansible 2.6.2 and awx 1.0.7.2 on rhel 7.5. AWX is connecting to my ssh proxy as root instead of the defined Credential user.

My playbook contains the following

become: yes
become_method: sudo
remote_user: remoteuser
ansible_user: remoteuser

ssh.config in my playbook contain the following

match host !proxyA,!proxyB,* exec "ssh proxyA nc -w1 %h %p &>/dev/null
  ProxyJump proxyA
match host !proxyA,!proxyB,* exec "ssh proxyB nc -w1 %h %p &>/dev/null
  ProxyJump proxyB

My AWX credential user which uses an ssh key and associated with the AWX JOB Template is this (which should be used for ssh connections): remoteuser

I have no defined entries in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg or any ansible.cfg defined in the current working directory (of the playbook) or in $HOME.

Here is the proxyA/B syslog entries showing the user that AWX is connecting as:

sshd: Failed publickey fro root from 1.2.3.4

And here is the AWX ansible output showing the connection as 'root' instead of the 'remoteuser'

root@proxyA's password: root@proxyA's password: root@proxyA's password:

I can run the playbook through ansible (outside of AWX) without errors.

How do I tell AWX to use the right user name?

Usama Abdulrehman
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According to https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_intro.html

it should be remote_user: if it still does not work, run the playbook with -vvvv and add the log to the Q&A.

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