Dick, How can I start using public key auth on Ansible? What's its
procedure/process and the commands to use in running ansible-playbook when
using it? - Thanks, Lorenzo
On Saturday, July 29, 2017 at 6:09:50 AM UTC-10, Dick Visser wrote:
>
> On 29 July 2017 at 00:58, Lorenzo Farinas <farinas...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> > I successfully created and tested some Ansible playbooks, that's when
> > ansible_ssh_pass parameter value is the actual password of the
> ansible_user
> > for the involved server specified in a group in the /etc/ansible/hosts
> file.
> > But when the ansible_ssh_pass parameter was replaced with its salt
> encrypt
> > value for security reasons, the playbook run would fail with the server
> > Unreachable. Please advise.
>
> The ansible_ssh_pass parameter is meant to supply the plain text password
> only.
> Anything else ("salt encrypt value" - whatever that may be) won't work.
>
> If you're looking to improve security then move away from password
> authentication and start using public key auth.
>
> Dick
>
>
>
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