# getting this error while installing ansible tower

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-this-error-while-installing-ansible-tower/30124>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [April 16, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-this-error-while-installing-ansible-tower/30124 "2019-04-16T11:26:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![vikram\_acharya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/65b543/32.png) [@vikram\_acharya](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vikram_acharya)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-this-error-while-installing-ansible-tower/30124/1 "2019-04-16T11:26:14Z")

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Hello Ritesh ,

ansible all -m ping --ask-pass  
SSH password:  
10.1.0.6 | UNREACHABLE! =\> {  
“changed”: false,  
“msg”: “Invalid/incorrect password: Permission denied, please try again.”,  
“unreachable”: true

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**Author:** ![ritesh\_r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ritesh\_r](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ritesh_r)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-this-error-while-installing-ansible-tower/30124/2 "2019-04-16T12:16:35Z")

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1. my etc/ansible/hosts file has the following:  
[servers]  
ip\_addrs ansible\_user=root
2. password authentication in etc/ssh/sshd\_config has been set to yes
3. the ssh keys has been shared between the two systems.  
the error still persists