From 9d9c0dfa696d0f56b2a7eeda2daa2ffc9c723f9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Clay <matt@mystile.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 11:13:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add missing to_bytes for cmd.

---
 lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py
index 058b13800a5..7f605d01753 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
 
         display.vvv("EXEC %s" % cmd, host=self._play_context.remote_addr)
 
+        cmd = to_bytes(cmd, errors='strict')
+
         no_prompt_out = ''
         no_prompt_err = ''
         become_output = ''