Please try the below. It works. --- - hosts: localhost remote_user: root become: yes gather_facts: yes vars: user_name: youruser
vars_prompt: - name: "new_password" prompt: "Enter New Password" private: yes encrypt: "md5_crypt" confirm: yes salt_size: 7 tasks: - name: Change password of existing user user: name={{user_name}} update_password=always password={{new_password}} On Friday, 30 September 2016 14:36:42 UTC+5:30, hzj...@foxmail.com wrote: > > helloļ¼all > > i want to use ansible user module to change password on the > remote hosts, > > but , if the user is not in the remote hosts, ansible will create > the user, how can i change password only, if user is not exist, return > error is ok; > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/ec64e8d8-9cb4-4f38-8203-f5531703df4a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.