Good evening everyone, I’m looking for an automated way to create user accounts with random passwords and re-using them for the ansible_sudo_pass variable.
Is there an official position on how to do/accomplish this?
My current solution broke after an update from Ansible 1.9 to Ansible 2 and I struggle to make it work under Ansible 2.
For more details let me explain my solution and how it breaks with Ansible 2.
I create a new user and store its password with this task:
---
- name: Create user
user: name=deployer group=deployer password={{item}} state=present
with_password: "./passwords/my-server/users/deployer encrypt=sha256_crypt"
In a different playbook I use the previously created user and its password like this:
