Hi Marc, could you open a github issue for this? Thanks!
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Marc Petrivelli <[email protected]>wrote: > In my ansible.cfg I had the following set: > > [defaults] > transport=smart > > [ssh_connection] > scp_if_ssh=True > > For one of my target hosts (specifically a VMware vCenter appliance) I > received a SFTP disabled error. After investigating this host did in fact > have SFTP disabled (on purpose). I am curious about a few things. > > 1) why is the paramiko python ssh lib defaulting to SFTP for file > transfer? Is this intended? Is it more efficient? > > 2) Wouldn't it make sense for the ansible connection module to detect this > failure and alternatively try to use SCP to transfer the file? > > In the end I had to force the host to use SSH (ansible_connection=ssh in > my inventory file) and then change > > From: > ssh_args = -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s > > To: > ssh_args = -o ControlMaster=auto > > to get everything to work. It seems ansible is smart enough to detect > which features the particular flavor of sshd supports when ssh transport is > used. It seems the connection module using paramiko might be able to > determine if SFTP is disabled and fail over to SCP. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/3b35bbab-d2aa-4da8-ad01-1ed2a866c8bd%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/3b35bbab-d2aa-4da8-ad01-1ed2a866c8bd%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAFg%2Bn8Sr0nKYPc9Nq_QzqWuT3mqCcrJpjiqdm2SWVDd1Vbz4-w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
