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Re:Command execution on Ansible controller from host by sirn on Thursday January 12, 2017 @05:42AM (#13381270)
> Why does a client need to specify an interpreter to run on the master host?

Some system have Python installed in a rather uncommon location. For example, Python is not part of FreeBSD base system, so Python is installed at /usr/local/bin/python instead of the expected /usr/bin/python, or Arch has Python 2 installed at /usr/bin/python2 rather than /usr/bin/python.

Note that Ansible doesn't require itself to be installed on the remote host (and IMHO is one of its biggest selling point) and execute tasks by sending a packed version of a task to the remote host and execute it using `ansible_python_interpreter` (e.g. `/usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible-tmp-a43bf412.py`)

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Re:Command execution on Ansible controller from host by lucd on Thursday January 19, 2017 @10:22PM (#13441535)
Even if you don't have to install a client you have at least to authorize a ssh key and somehow express your intent to add an ansible client.. When in the case of some other solution the installation amounts to one package to deploy (with no dependency) and one command line to issue, installation is a false problem..
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