# Running a playbook **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [August 2, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook/11753 "2012-08-02T18:53:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![James8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@James8](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James8)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook/11753/1 "2012-08-02T18:53:50Z")
Hi, ansible --version ansible 0.6 Am I doing this correctly? I read the docs but feel like I'm missing something obvious sheepchase:playbooks jmarcus$ cat clpubkey.yml - hosts: CL800 user: jmarcus sudo: True authorized\_key user=jmarcus key="ssh-dss 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 jmarcus@sheepchase.local" ansible-playbook clpubkey.yml -K -f 1 Is it the dash? sheepchase:playbooks jmarcus$ ansible-playbook clpubkey.yml -K -f 1 sudo password: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/Users/jmarcus/ClusterHosts/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook", line 132, in \     sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))   File "/Users/jmarcus/ClusterHosts/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook", line 105, in main     only\_tags=only\_tags,   File "/Users/jmarcus/ClusterHosts/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/\_\_init\_\_.py", line 115, in \_\_init\_\_     self.playbook = self.\_load\_playbook\_from\_file(playbook)   File "/Users/jmarcus/ClusterHosts/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/\_\_init\_\_.py", line 125, in \_load\_playbook\_from\_file     playbook\_data = utils.parse\_yaml\_from\_file(path)   File "/Users/jmarcus/ClusterHosts/ansible/lib/ansible/utils.py", line 234, in parse\_yaml\_from\_file     return parse\_yaml(data)   File "/Users/jmarcus/ClusterHosts/ansible/lib/ansible/utils.py", line 225, in parse\_yaml     return yaml.load(data)   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/yaml/\_\_init\_\_.py", line 71, in load     return loader.get\_single\_data()   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/yaml/constructor.py", line 37, in get\_single\_data     node = self.get\_single\_node()   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 36, in get\_single\_node     document = self.compose\_document()   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 55, in compose\_document     node = self.compose\_node(None, None)   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 82, in compose\_node     node = self.compose\_sequence\_node(anchor)   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 110, in compose\_sequence\_node     while not self.check\_event(SequenceEndEvent):   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/yaml/parser.py", line 98, in check\_event     self.current\_event = self.state()   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/yaml/parser.py", line 393, in parse\_block\_sequence\_entry     "expected \, but found %r" % token.id, token.start\_mark) yaml.parser.ParserError: while parsing a block collection   in "\", line 1, column 1:     - hosts: CL800     ^ expected \, but found '?'   in "\", line 2, column 1:     user: jmarcus     ^ ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook/11753/2 "2012-08-02T18:56:44Z")
apparently you lead continued lines in YAML with a single space I agree this kind of looks terrible and there's probably a clever way to do {{ import filename as string }} in Jinja2, which would be nicer. If someone figures that out, I'll add it to the docs. ---
**Author:** ![James8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@James8](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James8)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook/11753/3 "2012-08-02T19:25:51Z")
Sorry so how do I deal with it? Do I need to put a space somewhere? or something like juSJfd6l1lAl2b+HijuFSSSOFqk5SKdc8jiRVscC2sjtXVLDgL0AZD0O5y8wAAAIBd7DB68PnWcn0LREZj4Y/Nf4yY3wWCb+hsaIQdILG0Ak1r+Lq54MreW/Cz/0nAAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBAP+LzrIXaw/uj14/Yn7hHsxGOlbVHPQ7aW1kA \ pbwCWlP0MQNyjFVZEfYoC2waoClilTz4SPg5IpXh52FAAAAFQD3YN++AfX7lOvZJCjOiHa6mLU1ZlLC16yxxdX8AB+pGX27bq+hMxYwwM66tg0X3nt6bIg1b7ML8oyi3gXmQoYluqnQQU9xmo+kfdqZXbGVj2J+4L0JtQgQq7z4spz3cYzae \ eZwQxz9Nnyatnoo6W6B48+1FDrvykw1wTt2tVRnlRbcjiG67EFuDzD1PAkUsbgAAAIEAkUU9FF5UZphNYThdxy+Y6tDZQhNP8g1qPWatBvNjNM+aMfiyISYga1lEpWvogAcEqvBdX58jSzW2RdIpPnVbG7e08yIg0lAAxOE+1Fziu1vc2/kRiK \ 3mp6US26v3QfUBcdVkq0fRJNTg62jSgthaY=jmarcus@sheepchase.local (mailto:jmarcus@sheepchase.local ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook/11753/4 "2012-08-02T19:29:26Z")
looks like Jinja2 includes are nothing more than {% include 'path/to/file' -%} probably easier to keep the long SSH keys out of the playbook. disclaimer: untested ---
**Author:** ![Lorin\_Hochstein1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@Lorin\_Hochstein1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lorin_Hochstein1)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook/11753/5 "2012-08-02T19:51:20Z")
James: When I deal with public keys , I put each one on a line (gave up trying to get multiline right with yaml). They live in a list keep them in a global\_vars.yaml file so I don’t have the ugly long lines in my regular play books. So, my global-vars.yaml has something like: ---
**Author:** ![James8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@James8](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James8)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook/11753/6 "2012-08-02T20:50:53Z")
Thanks I'll give it a go ---
**Author:** ![James8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@James8](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James8)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook/11753/7 "2012-08-14T17:49:44Z")
Hi, I'm wondering if you can expand on creating user in relation to ssh keys. Should I do something like this or is there a more effective way to do this play - name: Create a user for Vendor Support     action: user name=Vendor comment="Vendor Support" password=encrystring createhome=yes groups=wheel     tags:        - createusers   - name: Force password change for Vendor     action: command /usr/bin/chage -d 0 Vendor     tags:        - createusers   - name: Create the .ssh directory for Vendor user     action: command mkdir .ssh chdir=/home/Vendor     tags:        - createusers   - name: Chown the .ssh directory for Vendor user     action: command /bin/chown Vendor:wheel /home/Vendor/.ssh     tags:        - createusers   - name: chmod the .ssh directory for Vendor user     action: command /bin/chmod 700 /home/Vendor/.ssh     tags:        - createusers   - name: Copy the authorized\_keys2 file for Vendor user     action: copy src=/Users/jmarcus/ServerConfig/IT/Vendor/Sites/global/files/Vendor.authorized\_keys2 dest=/home/Vendor/.ssh/authorized\_keys2 owner=Vendor group=Vendor mode=0644     tags:        - createusers Thanks, James ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-a-playbook/11753/8 "2012-08-14T18:01:47Z")
you can put tags on a play and it will tag all tasks in the play. the file module manipulates files and directories