# ssh controlpath socket not created

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-controlpath-socket-not-created/37696>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [February 24, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-controlpath-socket-not-created/37696 "2023-02-24T18:10:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![mjksohonet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mjksohonet/32/1217_2.png) [@mjksohonet](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mjksohonet)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-controlpath-socket-not-created/37696/1 "2023-02-24T18:10:05Z")

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Very new to AWX. Got it up and running last week.  
I can connect to a remote host using a username and password but I’m having trouble connecting over ssh.  
The job output is full of these messages:

wait\_for\_connection: attempting ping module test

sending connection check: [b’ssh’, b’-C’, b’-o’, b’ControlMaster=auto’, b’-o’, b’ControlPersist=60s’, b’-o’, b’StrictHostKeyChecking=no’, b’-o’, b’KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, b’-o’, b’PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, b’-o’, b’PasswordAuthentication=no’, b’-o’, b’User=“ansible”‘, b’-o’, b’ConnectTimeout=10’, b’-o’, b’ControlPath=“/runner/cp/e5de431746”‘, b’-O’, b’check’, b’10.32.31.30’]  
No connection to reset: Control socket connect(/runner/cp/e5de431746): No such file or directory  
\<10.32.31.30\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: ansible  
\<10.32.31.30\> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ‘User=“ansible”’ -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ‘ControlPath=“/runner/cp/e5de431746”’ 10.32.31.30 ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’“‘echo ~ansible && sleep 0’”’"‘’  
\<10.32.31.30\> (255, b’', b"Warning: Permanently added ‘10.32.31.30’ (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.\r\nansible@10.32.31.30: Permission denied (publickey,password).

If I connect to the container and run the ssh connand:

bash-5.1$ ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ‘User=“ansible”’ -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=“/runner/cp/e5de431746” -O check 10.32.31.30 ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’“‘echo ~ansible && sleep 0’”’"‘’  
Control socket connect(/runner/cp/e5de431746): No such file or directory

If I run the command without the ControlPath option:

bash-5.1$ ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ‘User=“ansible”’ -o ConnectTimeout=10 10.32.31.30 ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’“‘echo ~ansible && sleep 0’”’"‘’  
/home/ansible

What is going on here?

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**Author:** ![mjksohonet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mjksohonet/32/1217_2.png) [@mjksohonet](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mjksohonet)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-controlpath-socket-not-created/37696/2 "2023-02-27T11:55:03Z")

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Not sure what was going on here but I restarted the k3s service and the problem went away.