Using ansible changing password for root account -- password error after changing

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Hi

I am executing playbook for changing password but its password not working after changing it,

Playbook as follows

  • hosts: all
    tasks:
  • name: Change root password
    user: name=test update_password=always password=“test123”

Please help in resolve

Regards
Saravana

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The password entry for the user module is a crypted password, not a clear text one.

That will, on a relatively modern system, look something like
$6$saltchars$passchars

for example:-
$6$0JvQ1LLFESzA16.I$JVdKAIq0igudTq06BMqzT9rL1gRawMPwLr9U3/kBMKUqZdONfa0wubC89C35LKl3aE16CRH57BfGb4ygPLggL1

[Yes they really are that long]

See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/52108/how-to-create-sha512-password-hashes-on-command-line for some info on how to get crypted passwords.

Nigel.

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HI

Thanks for the update.

i have one more query how to do ansible without copying the keys to remote host.

Regards
Saravana