cjdev2/ansible-pexpect

Wrap ansible with non-interactive authentication using pexpect

These are two simple scripts for wrapping ansible with pexpect allowing non-interactive ssh authentication.

If at all possible, you should use SSH keys for non interactive-auth instead.

The script simply reads the ssh username and password from ~/.ansible-ssh-auth and forwards them to the ansible process.

This is insecure for obvious reasons. Use SSH Keys instead.

~/.ansible-ssh-auth format:

username
password

It can also read the credentials from the environment variables SSH_USERNAME and SSH_PASSWORD

Third party requirements:

• python
• pexpect
• ansible

You can also apply the patch file to your install of pexpect in order to silence expect input (like passwords)

The patchfile currently only works against pexpect 2.4 (3.x support pending)