Ansible - Mode 755 for directories and 644 for files recursively

Question

I\'d like to allow anyone to list and read all files in my directory tree, but I don\'t want to make the files executable :

dir
  \\subdir1
      file1
  \\subdi         


        

Answer 1

This worked for me:

- file:
    path: dir
    mode: a-x
    recurse: yes
- file:
    path: dir
    mode: u=rwX,g=rX,o=rX
    recurse: yes

Remove execution permission first from all, otherwise group and others get execution permission to files.

See chmod man pages about X-directive:

execute/search only if the file is a directory or already has execute permission for some user (X)

Also this works:

- shell: "chmod -R a-x,u=rwX,g=rX,o=rX dir"

For some reason combination of these two does not work:

- file:
    path: dir
    mode: a-x,u=rwX,g=rX,o=rX
    recurse: yes