Become Plugin pbrun Fails to Find Command due to Quotation Padding from Ansible

[jamesmarshall24]

SUMMARY

Adding quotation padding around commands for privilege escalation breaks pbrun's execution stating "command not found"

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

pbrun.py

ANSIBLE VERSION

2.9.11

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

---
- hosts: all
  become_method: pbrun
  become: true
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - shell: echo $PATH

EXPECTED RESULTS

$PATH is echoed to stdout

ACTUAL RESULTS

ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o 'User="remote-user"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -tt remote-host 'pbrun '"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-ofsgdkxshyqguxrkwjyvnujmakxfhuff'"'"''
pbrun9.4.1-03[24202]: 3201.08 Exec of echo BECOME-SUCCESS-ofsgdkxshyqguxrkwjyvnujmakxfhuff
failed: Command not found. Connection to remote-host closed.

[jamesmarshall24]

Testing from command line, the above fails but removing quotes around the embedded "pbrun" commands works:

ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o 'User="remote-user"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -tt remote-host 'pbrun echo BECOME-SUCCESS-ofsgdkxshyqguxrkwjyvnujmakxfhuff; echo $PATH'

BECOME-SUCCESS-ofsgdkxshyqguxrkwjyvnujmakxfhuff
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin

[felixfontein]

!component =plugins/become/pbrun.py

[goutam-ghosh]

Any resolution on this issue?

[ansibullbot]

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[felixfontein]

I don't think anyone has been working on this plugin. In any case, the history speaks for itself: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/commits/main/plugins/become/pbrun.py (my changes are not related to any functionality except some very generic bug fixing)

[goutam-ghosh]

pbrun (power broker) with ansible is not working as every time it is giving the error "Command not found"

Exec of echo BECOME-SUCCESS-tsafolemoxcgtbnrzzjvehfja ; /usr/bin/python /users/userid/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1628238621.82-19572-9510618362995/AnsiballZ_command.py failed: Command not found.

[mpmurphy-aexp]

This is something I am seeing too