WARNING The input appears not to have been hashed The argument must be encrypted for this module to work properly

Question

Hi Guys,

I have created one user successfully with the help of the Ansible-playbook. But it is showing the below warning and I am not able to login with that user. 

[WARNING]: The input ******** appears not to have been hashed. The '********' argument must be encrypted for this module to work properly.

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You need to use the hash to create a password for a user. Otherwise, your system will not allow you to log in to your system. And for the same reason, you are getting the above warning. You can use the below script to use the hash.

- hosts: all
  vars:
    password: password
  tasks:
  - name: Create a User.
    user:
      name: user1
      state: present
      password: "{{ password | password_hash('sha512') }}"