There's not much documentation on this procedure man. I tried to set it up
and failed. However, I don't have a Cert server so I tried using a SSL
cert. Here are a couple of links I found that will give you some where to
start.
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16243
http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/certificate-password-less-based-authentication-in-winrm
The directions are for a remote PS from Windows to Windows. The Ansible
side is easy most of the setup is on the Windows Host..
On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 3:31:25 PM UTC-7, Lorenzo Farinas wrote:
> Dick, How can I start using public key auth on Ansible? What's its
> procedure/process and the commands to use in running ansible-playbook when
> using it? - Thanks, Lorenzo
>
> On Saturday, July 29, 2017 at 6:09:50 AM UTC-10, Dick Visser wrote:
>>
>> On 29 July 2017 at 00:58, Lorenzo Farinas <farinas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I successfully created and tested some Ansible playbooks, that's when
>> > ansible_ssh_pass parameter value is the actual password of the
>> ansible_user
>> > for the involved server specified in a group in the /etc/ansible/hosts
>> file.
>> > But when the ansible_ssh_pass parameter was replaced with its salt
>> encrypt
>> > value for security reasons, the playbook run would fail with the server
>> > Unreachable. Please advise.
>>
>> The ansible_ssh_pass parameter is meant to supply the plain text password
>> only.
>> Anything else ("salt encrypt value" - whatever that may be) won't work.
>>
>> If you're looking to improve security then move away from password
>> authentication and start using public key auth.
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
>>
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