specifying ansible_ssh_pass in group vars makes playbook hang

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Hello !
I am trying to run a playbook by specifying the inventory using dynamic inventory as given below

{
“192.168.0.65”: {
“hosts”: [
“192.168.0.65”
],
“vars”: {
“ansible_connection”: “ssh”,
“ansible_ssh_pass”: “password”,
“ansible_ssh_port”: “22”,
“ansible_ssh_user”: “root”
}
} “_meta”: {
“hostvars”: {
“192.168.0.65”: {
“hypervisor_id_list”: [
“2”
],
“hypervisor_type”: “kvm”,
“password”: “password”,
“port”: “22”,
“username”: “root”
}
}
}
}

When i try to run the playbook it gets hung. I was hoping when i give the ansible_ssh_pass it would go ahead and run the playbook.

The console output looks like this

2015-05-18 08:39:11,060 - DEBUG - <192.168.0.65> EXEC sshpass -d4 ssh -C -tt -vvv -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o ServerAliveInterval=200 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o Port=22 -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=200 192.168.0.65 /bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1431938351.05-188972893253294 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1431938351.05-188972893253294’

Even though i am assuming in my case it is not needed , i even tried --ask-pass it prompts for pasword and then the same thing.

I have the sshpass on the machine where i am running playbook from and not on the remote machine

I am able to ssh using the username/password

Please advise !

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My Problem got solved when i used ansible_connection as paramiko. The documentation says post 1.2 i can use “smart” but when i give that it doesnt recognise it.
So the question is if i have to go with password v/s key then what ansible_connection should i be using for both ?

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Hi Ritesh,

Both key and pasaword should work fine with both connection types (ssh, paramiko), since paramiko works fine, i would guess some ssh config might be causing the issue, can you change you connection type back to ssh and run the playbook -vvvv and attach an output, also the version of ansible you are using.

  • Benno
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Hi Beno
The output i sent is with vvvv and connection “ssh” caused it to hang

5

have you set any values for “ssh_args” in ansible.cfg or environment variable ‘ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS’

can you set ‘export ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS=" "’ and see if that helps.