SSH Connection fails. Permission denied. Publickey, keyboard-interactive

[Gene Stanilevskiy]

Hi All,

New to Ansible.  New to the group.

Trying to run some basic commands against my VMware environment and thought I would start with vmware_facts. 

ansible 2.4.1.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible 

  python version = 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

Ubuntu 16.0.4 

My hosts file looks like this:

[all]

[windows]
TestServ
TestServ1

[vsphere]
host1 ansible_connection=ssh ansible_user=root ansible_host=10.0.0.1
host2 ansible_user=root ansible_connection=ssh ansible_host=10.0.0.2

[localhost]
127.0.0.1 ansible_connection=local

I can successfully run the following command 

ansible vsphere -i hosts -m ping --ask-pass -vvv

| SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "failed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "data": "pong"
        }
    },
    "ping": "pong"

 After some research, here is the playbook that I came up with.

---
-
  hosts: vsphere
  connection: ssh
  gather_facts: yes

  vars_prompt:
   - name: "pwd"
     prompt: "Type password"
     private: yes

  tasks:

   - name: Gater facts on virtual machines
     vmware_vm_facts:
       delegate_to: localhost
       hosts: vsphere
       username: root
       password: "{{pwd}}"
       validate_certs: false

But I'm getting "permission denied" when I run the playbook:

ansible-playbook -i hosts group_vars/vmware_get_facts.yml

Type password:

PLAY [vsphere] ****************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] **************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [host1]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).\r\n", "unreachable": true}
fatal: [host2]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).\r\n", "unreachable": true}
        to retry, use: --limit @/home/administrator/windows/group_vars/vmware_get_facts.retry


PLAY RECAP *****************************************************************************************************************************************
host1        : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=1    failed=0
host2        : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=1    failed=0

When I run the command above with '-vvvv' it looks like the key is found:

Host 'host1' is known and matches the RSA host key

So I wonder if I have a syntax error somewhere or the playbook needs to be re-written. 

Thanks in advance for the help.

Gene

[Gene Stanilevskiy]

I think I solved my problem.  I re-wrote the playbook to look like this and it now gets vmware_facts as expected.

---
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  user: root
  become: no
  gather_facts: true
  serial: 1

  vars_prompt:
  - name: "user"
    prompt: "vCenter username"
    private: no
  - name: "pw"
    prompt: "User's password"
    private: yes


  tasks:
   - vmware_vm_facts:
       hostname: vcenter.test
       username: "{{user}}"
       password: "{{pw}}"
       validate_certs: False
     delegate_to: localhost
     register: vmfacts

   - debug:
       var: vmfacts.virtual_machines

Hopefully this helps someone too :-)

Gene