Installing casks requiring sudo password? about ansible-role-homebrew

[aaraza]

You can use the -K option. This will prompt you to enter a password for commands that require privilege escalation.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible.html#cmdoption-ansible-k

[rounakdatta]

You can consider using the ask-become-flag while using it in a playbook. Example: https://github.com/rounakdatta/computer.setup/blob/master/start.sh#L25

[kubaraczkowski]

Could it be that the 'bug' here is that the wrapper created in this repo does not expose (or set) the sudo_password?
It looks like that argument is not set by default to sudo_password: "{{ ansible_become_pass }}"

Perhaps there could come a parameter to this role to be passed through to homebrew_cask ?
Somewhere here:
https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-homebrew/blob/master/tasks/main.yml#L111

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[maspotts]

hi: I'm also facing this issue: I'm trying to install the mactex cask, and the installer hangs because it needs a (sudo?) password. I tried adding sudo_password: "{{ ansible_become_pass }}" but I get undefined variable error. The module doesn't seem to support become: true. I'm very new to ansible so I can't figure out how this problem was solved: would you mind awfully pasting some brief instructions? This is my current task:

    - name: Install mactex
      community.general.homebrew_cask:
        name:
          - mactex
        path: /opt/brew/bin
        state: present
        sudo_password: "{{ ansible_become_password }}"

Thanks!