stored passphrase for ssh key

[Stephen Burke]

Does anyone know a way to store an ssh passphrase during a playbook run? All nodes have the same ssh key/passphrase. I just don't want to type the same passphrase 100 times during the playbook run. Is there any way to do this with passphrases? 

[Santha Kumar]

Define a variable to fetch it from file.

On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 8:30 PM, Stephen Burke <53op...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know a way to store an ssh passphrase during a playbook run? All nodes have the same ssh key/passphrase. I just don't want to type the same passphrase 100 times during the playbook run. Is there any way to do this with passphrases? 

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[Stephen Burke]

Figured it out. Add the following to your bash_profile:

# Configure ssh-agent (begin)

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"

function start_agent {

    echo "Initializing new SSH agent..."

    /usr/bin/ssh-agent |sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"

    echo succeeded

    chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"

    . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null

    /usr/bin/ssh-add ~/.ssh/$(whoami);

}

# Source SSH settings, if required

if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then

    . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null

    ps -ef |grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {

      start_agent;

  }

else

    start_agent;

fi

# Configure ssh-agent (end)