problem: changing account password with ansible on aix

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Hi. i run my playbook to change user account password but this dont work , not change the password.
iam using aix 6 and 7.

this same playbook work fine on Linux.

this is my simple playbook to change password on a user acoount .

  • name: Change account password
    hosts: “AIXQA”
    remote_user: ext00025
    tasks:
  • name: Changing user account password ext00025
    user: name=ext00025 update_password=always password=$1$SysAdm1n$W01N55jxDbwQf0JZsuKNn0

regards.

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The method for salting and hashing the password is probably different in AIX, remember you’s passing a hashed password and that’s platform dependent. You will have to find a way to do that for AIX. There’s some information in the following links

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_prompts.html

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/faq.html#how-do-i-generate-crypted-passwords-for-the-user-module

Hugo G.