Proxmox Module keeps saying "authorization on proxmox cluster failed with exception: Couldn't authenticate user"

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Hello there Ansible community,

I hope this is the right place to ask, if not please let me know.
My goal is to fully automate the provising of containers, which includes the creation of a Proxmox container.

So I tried the following playbook task:

  • name: ‘Create Proxmox container’
    proxmox: ‘api_host=moon api_user=root api_password= vmid=200 hostname=ansible-test01 ip_address=10.49.99.99 ostemplate=my-template.tgz password= state=present’

Whatever I try, the module tells me “authorization on proxmox cluster failed with exception: Couldn’t authenticate user”.
Do I need to setup something special in Proxmox? On the Web GUI (Port 8006) the logins works without issues.

Any idea or pointers?
Thanks a lot!

Florian

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I hope this is the right place to ask, if not please let me know.

It's the correct place.

So I tried the following playbook task:

- name: 'Create Proxmox container'
     proxmox: 'api_host=moon api_user=root api_password=<not-shown> vmid=200
hostname=ansible-test01 ip_address=10.49.99.99 ostemplate=my-template.tgz
password=<not-shown> state=present'

Whatever I try, the module tells me "authorization on proxmox cluster
failed with exception: Couldn't authenticate user".
Do I need to setup something special in Proxmox? On the Web GUI (Port 8006)
the logins works without issues.

Ansible documentation and Proxmox api documentation say you should use username root@pam , have you tried that?

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My mistake not to RTFM…
Thanks a lot, works now! :slight_smile: