Why Does My Playbook Fail With "Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt" in Ansible Tower?

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Issue

  • While running the playbook in Ansible Tower, the job keeps failing with the error FAILED! => { "msg": "Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt: " }

Environment

  • Ansible Tower by Red Hat

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