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By default, Ansible assumes you are using SSH keys to connect to remote machines. SSH keys are encouraged, but you can use password authentication if needed with the --ask-pass option. If you need to provide a password for privilege escalation (sudo, pbrun, and so on), use --ask-become-pass .
To specify a password for sudo, run ansible-playbook with --ask-become-pass ( -K for short). If you run a playbook utilizing become and the playbook seems to hang, most likely it is stuck at the privilege escalation prompt. Stop it with CTRL-c , then execute the playbook with -K and the appropriate password.
The easiest way to pass Pass Variables value to Ansible Playbook in the command line is using the extra variables parameter of the “ansible-playbook” command. This is very useful to combine your Ansible Playbook with some pre-existent automation or script.
When speaking with remote machines, Ansible by default assumes you are using SSH keys. SSH keys are encouraged but password authentication can also be used where needed by supplying the option --ask-pass. If using sudo features and when sudo requires a password, also supply --ask-become-pass (previously --ask-sudo-pass which has been deprecated).
Never used the feature but the docs say you can.
you can use --extra-vars like this:
$ ansible all --inventory=10.0.1.2, -m ping \
--extra-vars "ansible_user=root ansible_password=yourpassword"
If you're authenticating to a Linux host that's joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain, this command line works.
ansible --module-name ping --extra-vars 'ansible_user=domain\user ansible_password=PASSWORD' --inventory 10.10.6.184, all
As mentioned before you can use --extra-vars (-e) , but instead of specifying the pwd on the commandline so it doesn't end up in the history files you can save it to an environment variable. This way it also goes away when you close the session.
read -s PASS
ansible windows -i hosts -m win_ping -e "ansible_password=$PASS"
I used the command
ansible -i inventory example -m ping -u <your_user_name> --ask-pass
And it will ask for your password.
For anyone who gets the error:
to use the 'ssh' connection type with passwords, you must install the sshpass program
On MacOS, you can follow below instructions to install sshpass:
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