How do I stop ansible-playbook asking for ssh password??

[Stephen Eaton]

Hi All,

I'm trying to bootstrap some remote VMs (ubuntu1804) that are not physically managed by me and have only been given ssh accesses as root via ssh keys only i.e. no password.  I can confirm this works, i.e. I can ssh in as root with no password from my cli

using ansible 2.10.1 on macOS under python 3.8

I want to bootstrap these machines to get them onto our CI/CD pipeline 

I'm using the playbook I normally bootstrap however ansible-playbook keeps prompting for a password in this case. 

`ansible-playbook bootstrap.yml -k -extra-vars="hosts=x.x.x.x remote_user=root" `

I have also tried passing my ssh private key using  '--private-key' parameter to no avail.

also added `ask_pass=False` to my local ansible.cfg to no avail

I've successfully used this on other vms in the past that I physically manage however I just use the root password and then my bootstrap playbook does does the rest.

local ansible.cfg

[defaults]

roles_path=roles

ask_pass=false

transport=ssh

my playbook bootstrap.yml is:

- name: Bootstrap remote server for CI

hosts: '{{ hosts }}'

remote_user: '{{ user }}'

gather_facts: no

roles:

- role: bootstrap

Thanks

Stephen

[Stephen Eaton]

Doh!!!!!

 

‘-k’ was the culprit

 

…ill just crawl back under my rock….

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