# AWX ssh\_config

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ssh-config/33488>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [July 24, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ssh-config/33488 "2020-07-24T18:39:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![william.dossett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@william.dossett](https://forum.ansible.com/u/william.dossett)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ssh-config/33488/1 "2020-07-24T18:39:53Z")

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Hi, I need some help getting AWX to run a playbook against an older Cisco router.

I am on AWX 13 - I have blissfully sort of skimmed over how AWX is working - it mostly just works and I haven’t really dug into how it runs, but now I need to modify the ssh options like I do in my /etc/ssh\_config to allow older ciphers and algorithms.

I googled a lot on this and seems like you could put an option in ansible.cfg to point it to your modified ssh\_config - which I have done - but I expect that ansible.cfg in my homedir/.ansible isn’t being used as nothing I do makes any difference.

AWX is saying my environment is /var/lib/awx/venv/ansible

however that directory does not exist… so I begin to realize that this must be running in a docker container and docker container ls seems to confirm this.

Docker is not actually one of my strengths. I did a course on it over a year ago, haven’t used it much since and forgot 95% of it.

So, can anyone point me in the right direction to change the ssh\_config for ansible running with AWX?

I have also tried putting some ssh options in my inventory, but that doesn’t change anything either - I might be doing it wrong and will continue to try, if anyone could point me in the right direction on this I would yugely appreciate it!

Regards  
Bill