fine tuned password handling as we were getting false positives, probably caused by other changes up the stack that now call these functions in more cases.

lib/ansible/plugins/connections/paramiko_ssh.py

@@ -230,23 +230,29 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
             chan.exec_command(cmd)
             if self._play_context.prompt:
                 if self._play_context.become and self._play_context.become_pass:
+                    passprompt = False
                     while True:
                         self._display.debug('Waiting for Privilege Escalation input')
-                        if self.check_become_success(become_output) or self.check_password_prompt(become_output):
+                        if self.check_become_success(become_output):
                             break
+                        elif self.check_password_prompt(become_output):
+                            passprompt = True
+                            break
+
                         chunk = chan.recv(bufsize)
                         self._display.debug("chunk is: %s" % chunk)
                         if not chunk:
                             if 'unknown user' in become_output:
-                                raise AnsibleError(
-                                    'user %s does not exist' % become_user)
+                                raise AnsibleError( 'user %s does not exist' % become_user)
                             else:
-                                raise AnsibleError('ssh connection ' +
-                                    'closed waiting for password prompt')
+                                break
+                                #raise AnsibleError('ssh connection closed waiting for password prompt')
                         become_output += chunk
-                    if not self.check_become_success(become_output):
-                        if self._play_context.become:
+                    if passprompt:
+                        if self._play_context.become and self._play_context.become_pass:
                             chan.sendall(self._play_context.become_pass + '\n')
+                        else:
+                            raise AnsibleError("A password is reqired but none was supplied")
                     else:
                         no_prompt_out += become_output
                         no_prompt_err += become_output

lib/ansible/plugins/connections/ssh.py

@@ -371,11 +371,19 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
 
                 become_output = ''
                 become_errput = ''
+                passprompt = False
                 while True:
                     self._display.debug('Waiting for Privilege Escalation input')
-                    if self.check_become_success(become_output + become_errput) or self.check_password_prompt(become_output + become_errput):
+
+                    if self.check_become_success(become_output + become_errput):
+                        self._display.debug('Succeded!')
+                        break
+                    elif self.check_password_prompt(become_output) or self.check_password_prompt(become_errput):
+                        self._display.debug('Password prompt!')
+                        passprompt = True
                         break
 
+                    self._display.debug('Read next chunks')
                     rfd, wfd, efd = select.select([p.stdout, p.stderr], [], [p.stdout], self._play_context.timeout)
                     if not rfd:
                         # timeout. wrap up process communication
@@ -385,16 +393,20 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
                     elif p.stderr in rfd:
                         chunk = p.stderr.read()
                         become_errput += chunk
+                        self._display.debug('stderr chunk is: %s' % chunk)
                         self.check_incorrect_password(become_errput)
 
                     elif p.stdout in rfd:
                         chunk = p.stdout.read()
                         become_output += chunk
+                        self._display.debug('stdout chunk is: %s' % chunk)
+
 
                     if not chunk:
-                        raise AnsibleError('Connection closed waiting for privilege escalation password prompt: %s ' % become_output)
+                        break
+                        #raise AnsibleError('Connection closed waiting for privilege escalation password prompt: %s ' % become_output)
 
-                if not self.check_become_success(become_output + become_errput):
+                if passprompt:
                     self._display.debug("Sending privilege escalation password.")
                     stdin.write(self._play_context.become_pass + '\n')
                 else: