I am trying to login as deepa user from putty session to confirm that 
password is correct or not. I read in the documentation that password 
lookup generates password in a text format. So I should be able to login 
from putty session with that password right.

On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 6:35:57 PM UTC+5:30, Matt Martz wrote:
>
> The user module expects the password to already be encrypted.  You will 
> also need to pass encrypt=True to the lookup as well.
>
> On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, Deepa Yr <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am running this task
>>
>> - name: Create users with auto generated password
>>   user: name=deepa state=present password="{{ lookup('password', 
>> '/tmp/deepapassword.txt chars=ascii_letters') }}"
>>
>> It is creating the file /tmp/deepapassword.txt and I see the password
>> But when I try to login as deepa user with that password, it says 
>> incorrect password.
>>
>> Any suggestions here ? 
>>
>> My requirement is to create a user with random password and use this user 
>> credentials in the subsequent tasks. 
>>
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