How to pass a user password in ansible command

Question

I want to use Ansible as part of another Python software  in that software I have a hosts list with their user   password    Is there a way to pass the user   pass of the SSH connection to the Ansible ad-hoc command or write it in any file in encrypted way    Or do i understand it all wrong  and the only way to do it is with SSH certification

User · Answer

you can use --extra-vars like this     ansible all --inventory 10 0 1 2  -m ping       --extra-vars  ansible user root ansible password yourpassword    If you re authenticating to a Linux host that s joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain  this command line works   ansible --module-name ping --extra-vars  ansible user domain user ansible password PASSWORD  --inventory 10 10 6 184  all

User · Answer

I used the command ansible -i inventory example -m ping -u  lt your user name gt  --ask-pass  And it will ask for your password  For anyone who gets the error  to use the  ssh  connection type with passwords  you must install the sshpass program  On MacOS  you can follow below instructions to install sshpass   Download the Source Code Extract it and cd into the directory   configure sudo make install

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When speaking with remote machines  Ansible by default assumes you are   using SSH keys  SSH keys are encouraged but password authentication   can also be used where needed by supplying the option --ask-pass  If   using sudo features and when sudo requires a password  also supply   --ask-become-pass  previously --ask-sudo-pass which has been deprecated     Never used the feature but the docs say you can

User · Answer

As mentioned before you can use --extra-vars  -e    but instead of specifying the pwd on the commandline so it doesn t end up in the history files you can save it to an environment variable  This way it also goes away when you close the session   read -s PASS ansible windows -i hosts -m win ping -e  ansible password  PASS

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