# troubles with rabbitmq\_user

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/troubles-with-rabbitmq-user/18557>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 20, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/troubles-with-rabbitmq-user/18557 "2015-06-20T03:08:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Barry\_Kaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Barry\_Kaplan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Barry_Kaplan)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/troubles-with-rabbitmq-user/18557/1 "2015-06-20T03:08:02Z")

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Whenever I set a user password with rabbitmq\_user I cannot then log in. Using ANSIBLE\_KEEP\_REMOTE\_FILES is see that the correct password is being sent.

If I then reset the password using rabbitmqctl to the exact same value that rabbitmq\_user used I can then log in.

Is anybody else experiencing this?

ansible version: 1.9.2 (v1.9.2-0.1.rc1 982bad7886)

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**Author:** ![Barry\_Kaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Barry\_Kaplan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Barry_Kaplan)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/troubles-with-rabbitmq-user/18557/2 "2015-06-20T03:14:21Z")

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RTFM: This was an existing user, hence:

password:  
description:

- Password of user to add.
- **To change the password of an existing user, you must also specify**  
**C(force=yes).**  
required: false  
default: null

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**Author:** ![Barry\_Kaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Barry\_Kaplan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Barry_Kaplan)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/troubles-with-rabbitmq-user/18557/3 "2015-06-20T03:15:38Z")

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But it’s still unclear why the password is getting changed/corrupted without the force flag…