Point Ansible at alternate ssh config file

[Jeff Richards]

I'm trying to have Ansible use an alternate ssh config file (i.e. not ~/.ssh/config).

My understanding was that you achieve this via adding a -F option in ssh_args in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg. So my ssh_args now looks like this:

[ssh_connection]

ssh_args = -C -F ~/.ssh/collated-configs -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=30m -o ControlPath=/tmp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r

but collated-configs never gets referenced.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Jeff

[Matt Martz]

Jeff,

If memory serves me correctly, you have to use a full path to the config, and cannot use ~

This is due to the ssh command not being executed via a shell, so shell expansions do not happen.

I have a similar configuration in my ansible.cfg and it works without issue.

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[Jeff Richards]

Hey Matt,

Tried it both ways, makes no difference.

With verbosity cranked up, I can see that it's reading the default .ssh/config file.

But interestingly, although the debug does show:

"Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file"

and that contains:

ssh_args = -C -F /home/user01/.ssh/collated-configs -o ControlMaster=auto -o Co

st=30m -o ControlPath=/tmp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r

the SSH: debug does not reflect any of those ssh_args.

So if we're not reading /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg at all, that would explain this behavior. But what would cause that to silently fail?

Jeff

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 12:37:17 PM UTC-8, Matt Martz wrote:

Jeff,

If memory serves me correctly, you have to use a full path to the config, and cannot use ~

This is due to the ssh command not being executed via a shell, so shell expansions do not happen.

I have a similar configuration in my ansible.cfg and it works without issue.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Jeff Richards <richar...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to have Ansible use an alternate ssh config file (i.e. not ~/.ssh/config).

My understanding was that you achieve this via adding a -F option in ssh_args in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg. So my ssh_args now looks like this:

[ssh_connection]

ssh_args = -C -F ~/.ssh/collated-configs -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=30m -o ControlPath=/tmp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r

but collated-configs never gets referenced.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Jeff

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