Depending on what you're trying to set the password on, most things expect
a crypted value. See user module docs and
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/faq.html#how-do-i-generate-crypted-passwords-for-the-user-module
.
On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 12:57:47 PM UTC-7, chrono wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to change the password of an ID on a few different servers.
> The result of my playbook says that each of the servers were "changed"
> however I am unable to login with the new password OR the old password.
>
> Here is the playbook:
>
> ---
>> - name: Change blahuser password
>> hosts: "{{host_group}}"
>> sudo: true
>> # become_user: blahuser #Become did not work, I kept getting a
>> permission denied
>> # become_method: sudo
>> remote_user: blahuser
>> vars_files:
>> - '/HOME/PATH/ansible/inventory/web/group_vars/all-servers.yml'
>> tasks:
>> - name: change blahuser password
>> user: name=blahuser update_password=always password="{{pass}}" #Pass
>> variable is encrypted and stored in all-servers.yml
>
>
> Here is the command I used:
>
> ansible-playbook -i /HOME/PATH/ansible/inventory/web/hosts
>> updatePassword.yml -e "host_group=dev" -vvvv -K
>
>
>
> As I mentioned, it seems that the playbook ran and changed the password,
> but I have no idea what it was changed to.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - C
>
>
>
>
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