How to enter private key password with ansible

Question

I have the vagrant virtual machine running.

I can ssh into it using ssh [email protected] then it ask me the pass phrase for the private key , which I can enter and then it logs me in.

but if I use:

ansible all -m ping

then I get this:

192.168.0.28 | FAILED => FAILED: ssh [email protected]:22 : Private key file is encrypted
To connect as a different user, use -u <username>.

How can I enter pass phrase in ansible?

I tried ansible -k but it says authentication failed.

Solution

Try using ssh as the transport. Generally, Ansible uses paramiko which is not as friendly for interactive sessions:

ansible all -c ssh -m ping

If that doesn't work, I didn't see anything on running Ansible with an ssh key pass phrase on the documentation or in the code, so you might have to remove it with something like this:

openssl rsa -in private_key_with_pass_phrase -out private_key_without_pass_phrase

Comments

[user3147180]

i removed the password, but it says authentication failed. how can i mention in ansible that i want to connect via username vagrant and not the username of host where i am executing ansible

[Rico]

you can run ansible all -c ssh -m ping -u vagrant

[L0j1k]

It's also possible to specify the user you want to login as inside the /etc/ansible/hosts file with ansible_ssh_user=ansible next to the hostname, or in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg with remote_user=ansible. Of course, substituting your desired username instead of ansible as I have typed here.