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.. _playbooks_prompts:
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Interactive input: prompts
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If you want your playbook to prompt the user for certain input, add a 'vars_prompt' section. Prompting the user for variables lets you avoid recording sensitive data like passwords. In addition to security, prompts support flexibility. For example, if you use one playbook across multiple software releases, you could prompt for the particular release version.
.. contents::
:local:
Here is a most basic example:
.. code-block:: yaml
---
- hosts: all
vars_prompt:
- name: username
prompt: What is your username?
private: no
- name: password
prompt: What is your password?
tasks:
- name: Print a message
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: 'Logging in as {{ username }}'
The user input is hidden by default but it can be made visible by setting ``private: no``.
.. note::
Prompts for individual ``vars_prompt`` variables will be skipped for any variable that is already defined through the command line ``--extra-vars`` option, or when running from a non-interactive session (such as cron or Ansible AWX). See :ref:`passing_variables_on_the_command_line`.
If you have a variable that changes infrequently, you can provide a default value that can be overridden.
.. code-block:: yaml
vars_prompt:
- name: release_version
prompt: Product release version
default: "1.0"
Encrypting values supplied by ``vars_prompt``
---------------------------------------------
You can encrypt the entered value so you can use it, for instance, with the user module to define a password:
.. code-block:: yaml
vars_prompt:
- name: my_password2
prompt: Enter password2
private: yes
encrypt: sha512_crypt
confirm: yes
salt_size: 7
If you have `Passlib <https://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_ installed, you can use any crypt scheme the library supports:
- *des_crypt* - DES Crypt
- *bsdi_crypt* - BSDi Crypt
- *bigcrypt* - BigCrypt
- *crypt16* - Crypt16
- *md5_crypt* - MD5 Crypt
- *bcrypt* - BCrypt
- *sha1_crypt* - SHA-1 Crypt
- *sun_md5_crypt* - Sun MD5 Crypt
- *sha256_crypt* - SHA-256 Crypt
- *sha512_crypt* - SHA-512 Crypt
- *apr_md5_crypt* - Apache's MD5-Crypt variant
- *phpass* - PHPass' Portable Hash
- *pbkdf2_digest* - Generic PBKDF2 Hashes
- *cta_pbkdf2_sha1* - Cryptacular's PBKDF2 hash
- *dlitz_pbkdf2_sha1* - Dwayne Litzenberger's PBKDF2 hash
- *scram* - SCRAM Hash
- *bsd_nthash* - FreeBSD's MCF-compatible nthash encoding
The only parameters accepted are 'salt' or 'salt_size'. You can use your own salt by defining
'salt', or have one generated automatically using 'salt_size'. By default Ansible generates a salt
of size 8.
Share the implementation of hashing for both vars_prompt and password_hash (#21215) * Share the implementation of hashing for both vars_prompt and password_hash. * vars_prompt with encrypt does not require passlib for the algorithms supported by crypt. * Additional checks ensure that there is always a result. This works around issues in the crypt.crypt python function that returns None for algorithms it does not know. Some modules (like user module) interprets None as no password at all, which is misleading. * The password_hash filter supports all parameters of passlib. This allows users to provide a rounds parameter, fixing #15326. * password_hash is not restricted to the subset provided by crypt.crypt, fixing one half of #17266. * Updated documentation fixes other half of #17266. * password_hash does not hard-code the salt-length, which fixes bcrypt in connection with passlib. bcrypt requires a salt with length 22, which fixes #25347 * Salts are only generated by ansible when using crypt.crypt. Otherwise passlib generates them. * Avoids deprecated functionality of passlib with newer library versions. * When no rounds are specified for sha256/sha256_crypt and sha512/sha512_crypt always uses the default values used by crypt, i.e. 5000 rounds. Before when installed passlibs' defaults were used. passlib changes its defaults with newer library versions, leading to non idempotent behavior. NOTE: This will lead to the recalculation of existing hashes generated with passlib and without a rounds parameter. Yet henceforth the hashes will remain the same. No matter the installed passlib version. Making these hashes idempotent. Fixes #15326 Fixes #17266 Fixes #25347 except bcrypt still uses 2a, instead of the suggested 2b. * random_salt is solely handled by encrypt.py. There is no _random_salt function there anymore. Also the test moved to test_encrypt.py. * Uses pytest.skip when passlib is not available, instead of a silent return. * More checks are executed when passlib is not available. * Moves tests that require passlib into their own test-function. * Uses the six library to reraise the exception. * Fixes integration test. When no rounds are provided the defaults of crypt are used. In that case the rounds are not part of the resulting MCF output.
6 years ago
.. versionadded:: 2.7
If you do not have Passlib installed, Ansible uses the `crypt <https://docs.python.org/3/library/crypt.html>`_ library as a fallback. Ansible supports at most four crypt schemes, depending on your platform at most the following crypt schemes are supported:
Share the implementation of hashing for both vars_prompt and password_hash (#21215) * Share the implementation of hashing for both vars_prompt and password_hash. * vars_prompt with encrypt does not require passlib for the algorithms supported by crypt. * Additional checks ensure that there is always a result. This works around issues in the crypt.crypt python function that returns None for algorithms it does not know. Some modules (like user module) interprets None as no password at all, which is misleading. * The password_hash filter supports all parameters of passlib. This allows users to provide a rounds parameter, fixing #15326. * password_hash is not restricted to the subset provided by crypt.crypt, fixing one half of #17266. * Updated documentation fixes other half of #17266. * password_hash does not hard-code the salt-length, which fixes bcrypt in connection with passlib. bcrypt requires a salt with length 22, which fixes #25347 * Salts are only generated by ansible when using crypt.crypt. Otherwise passlib generates them. * Avoids deprecated functionality of passlib with newer library versions. * When no rounds are specified for sha256/sha256_crypt and sha512/sha512_crypt always uses the default values used by crypt, i.e. 5000 rounds. Before when installed passlibs' defaults were used. passlib changes its defaults with newer library versions, leading to non idempotent behavior. NOTE: This will lead to the recalculation of existing hashes generated with passlib and without a rounds parameter. Yet henceforth the hashes will remain the same. No matter the installed passlib version. Making these hashes idempotent. Fixes #15326 Fixes #17266 Fixes #25347 except bcrypt still uses 2a, instead of the suggested 2b. * random_salt is solely handled by encrypt.py. There is no _random_salt function there anymore. Also the test moved to test_encrypt.py. * Uses pytest.skip when passlib is not available, instead of a silent return. * More checks are executed when passlib is not available. * Moves tests that require passlib into their own test-function. * Uses the six library to reraise the exception. * Fixes integration test. When no rounds are provided the defaults of crypt are used. In that case the rounds are not part of the resulting MCF output.
6 years ago
- *bcrypt* - BCrypt
- *md5_crypt* - MD5 Crypt
- *sha256_crypt* - SHA-256 Crypt
- *sha512_crypt* - SHA-512 Crypt
.. versionadded:: 2.8
.. _unsafe_prompts:
Allowing special characters in ``vars_prompt`` values
-----------------------------------------------------
Some special characters, such as ``{`` and ``%`` can create templating errors. If you need to accept special characters, use the ``unsafe`` option:
.. code-block:: yaml
vars_prompt:
- name: my_password_with_weird_chars
prompt: Enter password
unsafe: yes
private: yes
.. seealso::
:ref:`playbooks_intro`
An introduction to playbooks
:ref:`playbooks_conditionals`
Conditional statements in playbooks
:ref:`playbooks_variables`
All about variables
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