Change password

[felipeaom]

Good afternoon,
Congratulations on the code, it was very well explained. But I am having a problem that I could not find the solution. After running PLAYBOOK it changes the password, but I can't login to the server with the new root password. Have an idea what it could be?

[Wayde2014]

I have the same question, is it solved?

[rmbleeker]

This method unfortunately doesn't work. The salt in /etc/shadow should be only 8 characters long, while the salt generated by the password_hash filter is 16 characters.

Please note that working with a fixed salt which can be passed onto the password_hash filter is a potential security risk, so instead we need a method to generate a random 8 character salt to use.

[sydneysider]

Yea same issue for me. When I tail the secure log I receive: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "uid >= 1000" not met by user "root".

[sydneysider]

Take out encryption and changed a few bits, runs fine:

• hosts: bind
  become: yes
  vars_prompt:
  • name: root_pwd
    prompt: "Enter Password: "
    private: yes
    confirm: yes
    tasks:
  • name: Change Password
    expect:
    command: passwd root
    responses:
    (?i)password: "{{ root_pwd }}"