From c1cb31a8a9f2e56e936c85a717bac5fab08c37cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Megan Marsh <megan@hashicorp.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 09:59:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add documentation to ansible provisioner warning against
 running Packer as root

---
 website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible.html.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible.html.md b/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible.html.md
index 0f9aa5908..b20e53bbf 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible.html.md
+++ b/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible.html.md
@@ -260,3 +260,7 @@ To unload all keys from your `ssh-agent`, run:
 ```console
 $ ssh-add -D
 ```
+
+### Become: yes
+
+We recommend against running Packer as root; if you do then you won't be able to successfully run your ansible playbook as root; `become: yes` will fail.