- name: Install SSMTP aur: name=ssmtp state=present become_user: aur_builder - name: Set up ssmtp.conf template: src: ssmtp_conf.j2 dest: /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf owner: root group: mail mode: 0640 become: yes - name: Set up revaliases template: src: revaliases.j2 dest: /etc/ssmtp/revaliases owner: root group: mail mode: 0640 become: yes - name: set right on /usr/sbin/ssmtp file: path: /usr/sbin/ssmtp # required. Path to the file being managed. group: mail # not required. Name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to I(chown). mode: 2711 # not required. Mode the file or directory should be. For those used to I(/usr/bin/chmod) remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must either add a leading zero so that Ansible's YAML parser knows it is an octal number (like C(0644) or C(01777)) or quote it (like C('644') or C('1777')) so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number. Giving Ansible a number without following one of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results. As of version 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, C(u+rwx) or C(u=rw,g=r,o=r)). owner: root # not required. Name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to I(chown). become: yes #sudo chown root:mail /usr/sbin/ssmtp /etc/ssmtp{,/{ssmtp.conf,revaliases}} #sudo chmod 2711 /usr/sbin/ssmtp #sudo chmod o-rwx /etc/ssmtp /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf;