Obviously this method gets you all the other constants as welll
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 19:53, Dick Visser <[email protected]> wrote:
> As much as I like them I would recommend against grep/cat/awk in this
> case as it makes things very fragile.
> Instead try to use something that PHP and ansible can both use - such as
> JSON.
>
> For example my WordPress has:
>
> define('DB_PASSWORD',
> '(U>Trob!t]J=-APTjNr[b9()yL#-95r8[3s4MpM~S0dI=`Pb7td9$):M{kENu|i323');
>
> This playbook then gets that password:
>
>
> tasks:
> - name: JSON encode constants
> command: php -r 'require_once("wp-config.php");
> echo json_encode(get_defined_constants(true)["user"]);'
> register: php_out
>
> - set_fact:
> php_constants: "{{ php_out.stdout | from_json }}"
>
> - debug: var=php_constants.DB_PASSWORD
>
>
>
> TASK [debug]
> ***************************************************************************************************************************************
> ok: [wp] =>
> php_constants.DB_PASSWORD:
> (U>Trob!t]J=-APTjNr[b9()yL#-95r8[3s4MpM~S0dI=`Pb7td9$):M{kENu|i323
>
>
>
> DIck
>
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 19:14, Mark T. <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > - name: Determining Source Account DB Password
> > shell: cat wp-config.php | grep DB_PASSWORD | awk -F"['']" '{print
> $4}'
> > register: wp_dbpw_source
> >
> > If the password contains a backslash, the output doubles the number of
> backslashes.
> >
> > abc\*# becomes abc\\*#
> >
> > I'm aware extra escape characters are only for display purposes, and not
> actually sent to the command.
> >
> > But the distorted password output prevents the script from accessing the
> database. When I remove the backslash from the password, the script works
> again.
> >
> > Is there a way to output a shell command using grep, cat or awk that
> doesn't cause this distortion?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark T.
> >
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