Can you upgrade your device to IOS 15.6 or greater? That might be easier than trying to find a work-around?
On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 12:02:24 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > I just want to quickly check a finding with the community, something which > should be so trivial it must be me :) > > I have found that it is not possible to remove Cisco users from IOS 12.x > using the Ansible module ios_user: > > This is becuase IOS 12.x doesnt support "show running-config | section > username" which the module tries to run. > > > Ok, thats fair enough. So I'll have to write the logic using ios_config: > module instead.. > > But ios_config: still does not seem to support 'prompt:' and 'answer:' :( > > Catch 22! As IOS prompts user removal with; > "This operation will remove all username related configurations with same > name.Do you want to continue? [confirm]" > > > Thankfully, and only by dump luck, IOS 12 does not give this prompt, so > ios_config: does work.. in this one case.. Phew.. > > But this to me seems like another exmaple of how much we need ios_config: > to support 'prompt:' and 'answer:' as Cisco IOS plays so poorly with > Ansible compared to other vendors becuase of the Cisco CLI. > > Thanks for your thoughts. > Kind regards, Andy Lemin > -- 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/44369ab9-c0d9-43ea-841b-fa72157d5893%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
