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 succesfully 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?
I'm confused!
1. Shouldn't the -K parameter cause ansible to use the password I enter for
ssh authentication?
2. Shouldn't the become: true cause the authorize_key to login to the
remote host as root?
3. Can someone explain the relationship between 'become' & '-K' and
ansible_ssh_user & ansible_ssh_pass (set in the hosts file)
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