Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt when deploying new sensor via HIVE

[gonresendes]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to deploy a new T-Pot sensor from the HIVE interface, but the deploy process fails at the "Reboot the sensor" step with this error:

TASK [Reboot the sensor] ************************************************************************************************
fatal: [83.xxx.xxx.xxx]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt: \r\n"}

I suspect this happens because the Ansible process used by HIVE can't respond to the sudo password prompt quickly enough, or because the sudo session expired.

Has anyone else encountered this issue?

I'd love to know how others handle this in production deployments or if there’s an official recommendation from T-Pot maintainers.

Thanks in advance!

[t3chn0m4g3]

I have enrolled 100+ sensors and never experienced an issue like it. While the play actually waits 600 seconds for the remote host to come alive again...

    - name: Reboot the sensor
      become: yes
      ansible.builtin.reboot:
        reboot_timeout: 600
        pre_reboot_delay: 0
        post_reboot_delay: 0
        msg: "Reboot initiated by Ansible for T-Pot sensor deployment."
        test_command: "uptime"

... my best guess is to adjust $HOME/tpotce/deploy.sh from ...

ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH=${HOME}/tpotce/data/deploy_sensor.log ansible-playbook ${myANSIBLE_TPOT_PLAYBOOK} -i ${mySENSOR_IP}, -c ssh -u ${mySSHUSER} --ask-become-pass -e "ansible_port=${myANSIBLE_PORT}"

... to ...

ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT=120 ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH=${HOME}/tpotce/data/deploy_sensor.log ansible-playbook ${myANSIBLE_TPOT_PLAYBOOK} -i ${mySENSOR_IP}, -c ssh -u ${mySSHUSER} --ask-become-pass -e "ansible_port=${myANSIBLE_PORT}"

... and run the deploy.sh again (also enabling debug logging by adding -vvv to the command might shed some light on what is really happening).