How do I stop ansible-playbook asking for ssh password??

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Hi All,

I’m trying to bootstrap some remote VMs (ubuntu1804) that are not physically managed by me and have only been given ssh accesses as root via ssh keys only i.e. no password. I can confirm this works, i.e. I can ssh in as root with no password from my cli

using ansible 2.10.1 on macOS under python 3.8

I want to bootstrap these machines to get them onto our CI/CD pipeline

I’m using the playbook I normally bootstrap however ansible-playbook keeps prompting for a password in this case.

ansible-playbook bootstrap.yml -k -extra-vars="hosts=x.x.x.x remote_user=root"

I have also tried passing my ssh private key using ‘–private-key’ parameter to no avail.

also added ask_pass=False to my local ansible.cfg to no avail

I’ve successfully used this on other vms in the past that I physically manage however I just use the root password and then my bootstrap playbook does does the rest.

local ansible.cfg

[defaults]
roles_path=roles
ask_pass=false

transport=ssh

my playbook bootstrap.yml is:

  • name: Bootstrap remote server for CI
    hosts: ‘{{ hosts }}’
    remote_user: ‘{{ user }}’
    gather_facts: no

roles:

  • role: bootstrap

Thanks

Stephen

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Doh!!!

‘-k’ was the culprit

…ill just crawl back under my rock….