Per the documentation, the password argument should be an already crypted
password:
Optionally set the user's password to this crypted value
You can use the "password_hash" filter to create an encrypted version such
as:
password="{{ someuser_password|password_hash }}"
On Thursday, June 18, 2015, Jan Duprez <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a strange issue when setting passwords for a user with the user
> module, it seems to be mangling the password somehow. When i use a plain
> shell command to set the password it does work ...
>
> Code causing the error:
>
> - name: Add user someuser usingAnsible user module
> user: name=someuser password="{{ someuser_password }}"
> groups=someuser,shadow append=yes state=present
>
> Working workaround:
>
> - name: Add user someuser using shell
> shell: (echo "{{ someuser_password }}"; echo "{{ someuser_password }}")
> | sudo passwd someuser
>
>
> Once present the user created does some password-authenticated java
> commands and when i use the erronous code this all fails.
> If i login to the machine manually and update the password while these
> calls are being made by the ansible run i see the commands start succeeding
> again.
>
> The workaround gets me by for now but is not ideal
>
> Sys info
>
> ansible --version
> ansible 1.9.1
> installed from ubuntu repos w apt-get
>
>
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
> Release: 12.04
> Codename: precise
>
> (yeah i should be updating my ubuntu, i know.. :-)
>
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