I am creating a simple playbook to add the current user's public key onto
the remote host. My playbook fails with error "Failed to connect to the
host via ssh: Permission denied".
I am running the playbook as non-root, and I can successfully ssh to the
remote host as root. I run the following script with -K and enter the
become password when prompted.
--- - name: Simple test 1 hosts: all gather_facts: no vars: username :
"root" pubkey : "{{ lookup('file','{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/.ssh/id_rsa.pub')
}}" tasks: - name: Confirm this user has a public key file delegate_to:
127.0.0.1 stat: path: '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub' register: stat_result - name:
Simple test 2 hosts: all become: true become_user: root tasks: - name:
Abort if this user has no public key file fail: msg="You are missing your
public key file" when: not stat_result.stat.exists - name: Add public key
for this user to remote host authorized_key: > user = {{ username }} key =
{{ pubkey }} state = present - name: Print all available facts
ansible.builtin.debug: var: ansible_facts
The output from running task 3 with -vvv and -K is below:
<somehost.com> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None <somehost.com> SSH:
EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o
KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o
PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey
-o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o
ControlPath=/home/admin/.ansible/cp/bf945a50fe somehost.com '/bin/sh -c
'"'"'echo ~ && sleep 0'"'"'' <somehost.com> (255, '', 'Permission denied
(publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password).\r\n') fatal:
[somehost.com]: UNREACHABLE! => { "changed": false, "msg": "Failed to
connect to the host via ssh: Permission denied
(publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password).", "unreachable": true }
Notice authorized_key seems to run as user None (despite telling task 3 to
become root). Only by setting ansible_ssh_user and ansible_ssh_pass in the
ansible hosts file can I get authorized_key to work. Why?
- Shouldn't the -K parameter cause ansible to use the password I enter
for ssh authentication?
- Shouldn't the become: true cause the authorize_key to login to the
remote host as root?
My playbook also succeeds WITHOUT the -K parameter, so I must be
misunderstanding how BECOME works. Can someone explain the relationship
between 'become' & '-K' and ansible_ssh_user & ansible_ssh_pass (set in the
hosts file)
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