{"id":7934,"date":"2015-11-10T12:47:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T12:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/10\/specify-sudo-password-for-ansible-open-source-projects-ansible-ansible\/"},"modified":"2015-11-10T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T12:47:23","slug":"specify-sudo-password-for-ansible-open-source-projects-ansible-ansible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/10\/specify-sudo-password-for-ansible-open-source-projects-ansible-ansible\/","title":{"rendered":"Specify sudo password for Ansible-open source projects ansible\/ansible"},"content":{"rendered":"

toast38coza<\/strong><\/p>\n

Probably the best way to do this – assuming that you can’t use the NOPASSWD solution provided by scottod is to use Mircea Vutcovici’s solution in combination with Ansible vault.<\/p>\n

For example, you might have a playbook something like this:<\/p>\n

- hosts: all\n\n  vars_files:\n    - secret\n\n  tasks:\n    - name: Do something as sudo\n      service: name=nginx state=restarted\n      sudo: yes\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Here we are including a file called secret<\/code> which will contain our sudo password.<\/p>\n
We will use ansible-vault to create an encrypted version of this file:<\/p>\n
ansible-vault create secret\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
This will ask you for a password, then open your default editor to edit the file. You can put your ansible_sudo_pass<\/code> in here.<\/p>\n
e.g.: secret<\/code>:<\/p>\n
ansible_sudo_pass: mysudopassword\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Save and exit, now you have an encrypted secret<\/code> file which Ansible is able to decrypt when you run your playbook. Note: you can edit the file with ansible-vault edit secret<\/code> (and enter the password that you used when creating the file)<\/p>\n
The final piece of the puzzle is to provide Ansible with a --vault-password-file<\/code> which it will use to decrypt your secret<\/code> file.<\/p>\n
Create a file called vault.txt<\/code> and in that put the password that you used when creating your secret<\/code> file. The password should be a string stored as a single line in the file.<\/p>\n
From the Ansible Docs:<\/p>\n
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.. ensure permissions on the file are such that no one else can access your key and do not add your key to source control<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Finally: you can now run your playbook with something like<\/p>\n
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -u someuser -i hosts --sudo --vault-password-file=vault.txt \n<\/code><\/pre>\n
The above is assuming the following directory layout:<\/p>\n
.\n|_ playbook.yml\n|_ secret\n|_ hosts\n|_ vault.txt\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
You can read more about Ansible Vault here: https:\/\/docs.ansible.com\/playbooks_vault.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
toast38coza Probably the best way to do this – assuming that you can’t use the NOPASSWD solution provided by scottod is to use Mircea Vutcovici’s solution in combination with Ansible vault. For example, you might have a playbook something like this: – hosts: all vars_files: – secret tasks: – name: Do something as sudo service: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}