Add note about wanting to do crypted passwords with $PASSWORD plugin.

pull/2432/head
Michael DeHaan 12 years ago
parent afb9ad1358
commit 22cd10bc6f

@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ Negative numbers are not supported. This works as follows::
.. versionadded: 1.1
'with_password' and associated macro "$PASSWORD" generate a random plaintext password and store it in
a file at a given filepath. If the file exists previously, "$PASSWORD"/'with_password' will retrieve its contents, behaving just like $FILE/'with_file'. Usage of variables like "${inventory_hostname}" in the filepath can be used to set up random passwords per host.
a file at a given filepath. Support for crypted save modes (as with vars_prompt) are pending. If the file exists previously, "$PASSWORD"/'with_password' will retrieve its contents, behaving just like $FILE/'with_file'. Usage of variables like "${inventory_hostname}" in the filepath can be used to set up random passwords per host.
Generated passwords contain a random mix of upper and lowercase ASCII letters, the
numbers 0-9 and punctuation (". , : - _"). The default length of a generated password is 30 characters. This length can be changed by passing an extra parameter::

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