ansible connection using rsa key

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Hi All,

I want to know is there any way to get connect to the remote host with ansible control server using rsa key.

Instead of using user name and password I want to use rsa key for authentication.

How can we do that?

Looking forward for reply.

Thanks & Regards
Sumit Sahay

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ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook.yml --key-file "~/.ssh/mykey.pem"

See in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44734179/specifying-ssh-key-in-ansible-playbook-file

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Hi Cava,

Thanks for your reply.

While doing this, we don’t need to enter user credential in host file?
Is it so?

Looking for your reply.

Regards
Sumit Sahay

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hi only the first time you have to copy the public key and insert the pwd

for example with
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@hostname ‘cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys’

or

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/mykey user@host

after when the key i present over the host
you can cannect without any password