Allow 13 asterisk characters in password field without warning (#54893)

On OpenBSD, 13 asterisk characters as a password hash, marks the
account as disabled. Otherwise daily(8) script which executes
security(8) will email operator about not properly locked accounts.

Before the diff, we see following warning:

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

After the diff, warning is gone.
pull/61790/head
kucharskim 5 years ago committed by ansibot
parent de826b437d
commit 1dea661ce8

@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
bugfixes:
- user - allow 13 asterisk characters in password field without warning

@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ options:
- Optionally set the user's password to this crypted value.
- On macOS systems, this value has to be cleartext. Beware of security issues.
- To create a disabled account on Linux systems, set this to C('!') or C('*').
- To create a disabled account on OpenBSD, set this to C('*************').
- See U(https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/faq.html#how-do-i-generate-encrypted-passwords-for-the-user-module)
for details on various ways to generate these password values.
type: str
@ -514,8 +515,8 @@ class User(object):
if self.module.params['password'] and self.platform != 'Darwin':
maybe_invalid = False
# Allow setting the password to * or ! in order to disable the account
if self.module.params['password'] in set(['*', '!']):
# Allow setting certain passwords in order to disable the account
if self.module.params['password'] in set(['*', '!', '*************']):
maybe_invalid = False
else:
# : for delimiter, * for disable user, ! for lock user

@ -105,11 +105,18 @@
password: '*'
register: test_user_encrypt4
- name: there should be no warnings when setting the password to '!' and '*'
- name: change password to '*************'
user:
name: ansibulluser
password: '*************'
register: test_user_encrypt5
- name: there should be no warnings when setting the password to '!', '*' or '*************'
assert:
that:
- "'warnings' not in test_user_encrypt3"
- "'warnings' not in test_user_encrypt4"
- "'warnings' not in test_user_encrypt5"
when: ansible_facts.system != 'Darwin'

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