File permissions unset or incorrect

Question

I am using ansible copy module to copy a file. The linter tells me "File permissions unset or incorrect" and I don't understand the problem.

Here is the ansible task

- name: Ensure some.txt is there
  copy:
    src: some.txt
    dest: "{{ some_path }}/some.txt"
    force: false
    mode: '644'

Where some.txt is a file that exists in the ansible/files directory. I have also tried with mode: 0644 but no luck.

My ansible version:

$ ansible-lint --version
ansible-lint 5.0.7 using ansible 2.10.8

Restarting the editor fixed it, but that's not really an answer. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You just need to specify mode: 0644 in your playbook and it will be all good.