Using salt.modules.mod_random to generate a password in a SLS

[pho...@startledphoenix.com]

How can I use the mod_random module to generate a password?

salt '*' random.get_str 20

Works

However, using a SLS,

{% set test_root = salt['mod_random']('get_str')('20') %}

and

{% set test_root = salt['random']('get_str')('20') %}

both fail.

Any help will be appreciated.

[Stephen Spencer]

This day, sir, you do not win The Internet.

No.  Denied!

Not even Lycos or the hollowed out shell that used to be called MySpace.

Seriously, though, the devil is in the function arguments.

def get_str(length=20):

  off_to_pyrcrypto_magicland(length)

It works from the salt CLI because salt does things to make us not hate it (such as passing a number or a string when said type is needed for a certain function call).  Anyway, remove the quotes from around your "number" so it can go on its merry way as the int that it desperately wants to be.

-S

  

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[Seth House]

Execution modules are available to Jinja in a dictionary keyed by strings in the format of 'module.function'. The correct syntax is this:

{% set test_root = salt['random.get_str'](20) %}

 Also you can pass a real number as the argument instead of a string as Stephen suggested.

[pho...@startledphoenix.com]

Ah, there we go.

Thanks for the help :)