# Using multiple machine credentials when running a job template in Tower

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-multiple-machine-credentials-when-running-a-job-template-in-tower/24411>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [May 7, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-multiple-machine-credentials-when-running-a-job-template-in-tower/24411 "2017-05-07T16:38:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Listing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Listing](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Listing)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-multiple-machine-credentials-when-running-a-job-template-in-tower/24411/1 "2017-05-07T16:38:22Z")

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Hi,

When running a job template in Ansible-Tower I notice that I can only select one credential per job run. I have many machines in my inventory with different credentials and occasionally I would like to connect with passwords instead of private keys.

I can get this to work just perfectly in Ansible via the hosts file (ansible\_user and ansible\_ssh\_pass) but not in Ansible-Tower.

How is this possible in one job? As far as I can see I can only select machine credentials for one single machine when editing a template. Or did I miss something? Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-multiple-machine-credentials-when-running-a-job-template-in-tower/24411/2 "2017-05-07T17:06:14Z")

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**Author:** ![Listing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Listing](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Listing)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-multiple-machine-credentials-when-running-a-job-template-in-tower/24411/3 "2017-05-21T11:41:41Z")

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It looks like there is only paid support available, even though there is a Ansible Tower version that allows you to use it for a small amount of servers. Why not create a Tower group? Or has Red Hat requested not to do this?