Introduction
Today we're going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting and specifically about the "Fatal usermod: unlocking the user's password would result in a passwordless account." error.
I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot.
Playbook
The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live Playbook to show you practically the usermod: unlocking the user's password would result in a passwordless account. error and how to solve it!
error code
- passwordless_error.yml
``yaml
---
- name: user module Playbook
hosts: all
become: true
vars:
myuser: "example"
tasks:
- name: create a disabled user
ansible.builtin.user:
name: "{{ myuser }}"
state: present
password_lock: true
- name: enable user
ansible.builtin.user:
name: "{{ myuser }}"
state: present
password_lock: false
`
error verification
Verify no user example in the target system:
`bash
$ ssh [email protected]
Last login: Tue Oct 5 09:35:24 2021 from 192.168.0.100
[devops@demo ~]$ sudo su -
Last login: Tue Oct 5 09:34:55 UTC 2021 on pts/0
[root@demo ~]# getent passwd | grep example
[root@demo ~]# exit
logout
[devops@demo ~]$ exit
logout
`
error execution
output
`yaml
$ ansible-playbook -i Playbook/inventory troubleshooting/passwordless_error.yml
PLAY [user module Playbook] *
TASK [Gathering Facts]
ok: [demo.example.com]
TASK [create a disabled user] *
changed: [demo.example.com]
TASK [enable user]
fatal: [demo.example.com]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "usermod: unlocking the user's password would result in a passwordless account.\nYou should set a password with usermod -p to unlock this user's password.\n", "name": "example", "rc": 1}
PLAY RECAP **
demo.example.com : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=
`
fix code
- passwordless_fix.yml
``yaml
---
- name: user module Playbook
hosts: all
become: true
vars:
myuser: "example"
mypassword: "password"
tasks:
- name: create a