GitHub action with Molecule is not working for sudo tasks

[RanabirChakraborty]

Prerequisites

• This was not already reported in the past (duplicate check)
• It does reproduce it with code from main branch (latest unreleased version)
• I include a minimal example for reproducing the bug
• The bug is not trivial, as for those a direct pull-request is preferred
• Running pip check does not report any conflicts
• I was able to reproduce the issue on a different machine
• The issue is not specific to any driver other than 'default' one

Environment

molecule 24.12.0 using python 3.11
ansible:2.15.13
containers:23.6.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: ansible.posix>=1.3.0 community.docker>=1.9.1 containers.podman>=1.8.1
ec2:23.6.0 from molecule_plugins
default:24.12.0 from molecule
azure:23.6.0 from molecule_plugins
openstack:23.6.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: openstack.cloud>=2.1.0
vagrant:23.6.0 from molecule_plugins
podman:23.6.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: containers.podman>=1.7.0 ansible.posix>=1.3.0
gce:23.6.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: google.cloud>=1.0.2 community.crypto>=1.8.0
docker:23.6.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: community.docker>=3.4.11 ansible.posix>=1.4.0

What happened

While running molecule test via GitHub Action we figured out that the tasks with needed to have root privilege via become: true is failing now. But earlier it was working fine. Just wanted to know is there any changes included that is prohibiting this? or some change is needed to be done in order to fix this.

Below is the error we are seeing:

  TASK [Ensure required packages are installed.] *********************************
  fatal: [instance]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "sudo: PAM account management error: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info\nsudo: a password is required\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}

You can also see the details here in our GitHub Action CI.
We know that removing become: true from the tasks will pass the tests but our question then how come it was working earlier?

[artis3n]

You may be interested in rocky-linux/sig-cloud-instance-images#56

[ssbarnea]

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