# ansible.builtin.user :: input password appears not to have been hashed

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-builtin-user-input-password-appears-not-to-have-been-hashed/38645>\
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**Created:** [January 10, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-builtin-user-input-password-appears-not-to-have-been-hashed/38645 "2024-01-10T10:27:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![adriansev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/adriansev/32/4866_2.png) [@adriansev](https://forum.ansible.com/u/adriansev)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-builtin-user-input-password-appears-not-to-have-been-hashed/38645/1 "2024-01-10T10:27:53Z")

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Hi! I'm trying to sync users from a "frontend" type server  
to compute nodes and for this i build a var yml with the information  
including the hash of the passwords (provided by spwd module attribute sp\_pwdp)  
sp\_pwdp is described here as Encrypted password, see [https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/spwd.html#module-spwd](https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/spwd.html#module-spwd)

as such i used it in ansible.builtin.user in the 'password' attribute but i get:  
[WARNING]: The input password appears not to have been hashed. The 'password' argument must be encrypted for this module to work properly.

from a --check run the issue seems to be from nfsnobody user that have the bellow information  
but the problem seems to come from 'hash': '!!'

Any idea what can i do to fix this? or being a warning i can just ignore it?

Thanks a lot!!  
Adrian

ok: [issaf-0-0] =\> (item={'name': 'nfsnobody', 'uid': 65534, 'gid': 65534, 'shell': '/sbin/nologin', 'home': '/var/lib/nfs', 'groups': , 'hash': '!!'}) =\> {  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ansible\_loop\_var": "user\_def",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"append": false,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"changed": false,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"comment": "Anonymous NFS User",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"group": 65534,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"groups": "",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"home": "/var/lib/nfs",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"invocation": {  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"module\_args": {  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"append": false,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"authorization": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"comment": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"create\_home": false,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"expires": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"force": false,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"generate\_ssh\_key": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"group": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"groups": ,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"hidden": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"home": "/var/lib/nfs",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"local": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"login\_class": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"move\_home": false,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"name": "nfsnobody",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"non\_unique": false,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"password": "VALUE\_SPECIFIED\_IN\_NO\_LOG\_PARAMETER",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"password\_expire\_max": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"password\_expire\_min": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"password\_lock": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"profile": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"remove": false,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"role": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"seuser": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"shell": "/sbin/nologin",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"skeleton": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ssh\_key\_bits": 0,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ssh\_key\_comment": "ansible-generated on issaf-0-0.issaf",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ssh\_key\_file": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ssh\_key\_passphrase": null,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"ssh\_key\_type": "rsa",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"state": "present",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"system": false,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"uid": 65534,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"update\_password": "always"  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;},  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"move\_home": false,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"name": "nfsnobody",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"password": "NOT\_LOGGING\_PASSWORD",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"shell": "/sbin/nologin",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"state": "present",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"uid": 65534,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"user\_def": {  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"gid": 65534,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"groups": ,  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"hash": "!!",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"home": "/var/lib/nfs",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"name": "nfsnobody",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"shell": "/sbin/nologin",  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"uid": 65534  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;},  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"warnings": [  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"The input password appears not to have been hashed. The 'password' argument must be encrypted for this module to work properly."  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]  
}