Fixes #6298 and adds a sudo unit test for synchronize

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ansible/runner/action_plugins/synchronize.py b/lib/ansible/runner/action_plugins/synchronize.py
index d7c9113f28..c66fcdff3c 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/runner/action_plugins/synchronize.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/runner/action_plugins/synchronize.py
@@ -173,6 +173,11 @@ class ActionModule(object):
         if self.runner.noop_on_check(inject):
             module_items += " CHECKMODE=True"
 
-        return self.runner._execute_module(conn, tmp, 'synchronize',
-                module_items, inject=inject)
+        # run the module and store the result
+        result = self.runner._execute_module(conn, tmp, 'synchronize', module_items, inject=inject)
+
+        # reset the sudo property                 
+        self.runner.sudo = self.original_sudo
+
+        return result