user module update_password changing password to and unknown value

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Hello Everyone,

I’m trying to change the password of an ID on a few different servers. The result of my playbook says that each of the servers were “changed” however I am unable to login with the new password OR the old password.

Here is the playbook:

  • name: Change blahuser password
    hosts: “{{host_group}}”
    sudo: true

become_user: blahuser #Become did not work, I kept getting a permission denied

become_method: sudo

remote_user: blahuser
vars_files:

  • ‘/HOME/PATH/ansible/inventory/web/group_vars/all-servers.yml’
    tasks:
  • name: change blahuser password
    user: name=blahuser update_password=always password=“{{pass}}” #Pass variable is encrypted and stored in all-servers.yml

Here is the command I used:

ansible-playbook -i /HOME/PATH/ansible/inventory/web/hosts updatePassword.yml -e “host_group=dev” -vvvv -K

As I mentioned, it seems that the playbook ran and changed the password, but I have no idea what it was changed to.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Depending on what you’re trying to set the password on, most things expect a crypted value. See user module docs and http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/faq.html#how-do-i-generate-crypted-passwords-for-the-user-module.