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| author | Michael Scherer <misc@zarb.org> | 2016-09-27 23:31:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Matt Clay <matt@mystile.com> | 2017-02-15 12:15:09 -0800 |
| commit | 6fae1d2bbfa1086e4fc18e95acac96f98d838480 (patch) | |
| tree | 5321153ef892f4e7b5114d4b9925128361b7eb51 /docs | |
| parent | 103ede26dfe012cc2aef268ff97b73fd9b906c23 (diff) | |
| download | ansible-6fae1d2bbfa1086e4fc18e95acac96f98d838480.tar.gz | |
Make password lookup treat /dev/null as a special case
I have from time to time a need of random password without
wanting to write them down (one example is mailman list creation,
that requires a password to be given to be sent to the list owner).
But using /dev/null do not return null, but the empty string, which
doesn't generate a password at all and so do not achieve my use case.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst index fa6c45db10..d9b8c33994 100644 --- a/docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst +++ b/docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_lookups.rst @@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ a file at a given filepath. If the file exists previously, it will retrieve its contents, behaving just like with_file. Usage of variables like "{{ inventory_hostname }}" in the filepath can be used to set up random passwords per host (which simplifies password management in 'host_vars' variables). +A special case is using ``/dev/null`` as a path. The password lookup will generate a new random password each time, but will not write it to ``/dev/null``. This can be used when you need a password +without storing it on the controller. + Generated passwords contain a random mix of upper and lowercase ASCII letters, the numbers 0-9 and punctuation (". , : - _"). The default length of a generated password is 20 characters. This length can be changed by passing an extra parameter:: |