specifying ansible_ssh_pass in group vars makes playbook hang

[Ritesh Shetty]

Hello !

I am trying to run a playbook by specifying the inventory using dynamic inventory as given below 

{

    "192.168.0.65": {

        "hosts": [

            "192.168.0.65"

        ],

        "vars": {

            "ansible_connection": "ssh",

            "ansible_ssh_pass": "password",

            "ansible_ssh_port": "22",

            "ansible_ssh_user": "root"

        }

    }    "_meta": {

        "hostvars": {

            "192.168.0.65": {

                "hypervisor_id_list": [

                    "2"

                ],

                "hypervisor_type": "kvm",

                "password": "password",

                "port": "22",

                "username": "root"

            }

        }

    }

}

When i try to run the playbook it gets hung. I was hoping when i give the ansible_ssh_pass it would go ahead and run the playbook. 

The console output looks like this 

2015-05-18 08:39:11,060  - DEBUG - <192.168.0.65> EXEC sshpass -d4 ssh -C -tt -vvv -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o ServerAliveInterval=200 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o Port=22 -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=200 192.168.0.65 /bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1431938351.05-188972893253294 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1431938351.05-188972893253294'

 

Even though i am assuming in my case it is not needed , i even tried --ask-pass it prompts for pasword and then the same thing. 

I have the sshpass on the machine where i am running playbook from and not on the remote machine 

I am able to ssh using the username/password 

Please advise !

[Ritesh Shetty]

My Problem got solved when i used ansible_connection as paramiko. The documentation says post 1.2 i can use "smart" but when i give that it doesnt recognise it. 

So the question is if i have to go with password v/s key then what ansible_connection should i be using for both ?

[benno joy]

Hi Ritesh,

Both key and pasaword should work fine with both connection types (ssh, paramiko), since paramiko works fine, i would guess some ssh config might be causing the issue, can you change you connection type back to ssh and run the playbook -vvvv and attach an output, also the version of ansible you are using.

- Benno

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[Ritesh Shetty]

Hi Beno

The output i sent is with vvvv and connection "ssh" caused it to hang 

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[benno joy]

have you set any values for "ssh_args" in ansible.cfg or environment variable 'ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS'

can you set  'export ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS=" "' and see if that helps.

 

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