This Ansible playbook generates unique random passwords for the user of choice on multiple hosts, updates its password, and stores the generated passwords in a file on the Ansible control machine.
- Ansible installed on the control machine.
passliblibrary installed on the control machine. You can install it using pip:
pip install passlibuser: The username for which the password will be changed. Default is root.password_length: The length of the generated passwords. Default is 16.password_chars: The character sets used for generating the passwords. Default is "ascii_letters,digits,punctuation".password_file: The file path on the control machine where the passwords will be stored.
Create an inventory file named hosts.ini with the details of your hosts and run the playbook using the following command:
ansible-playbook -i hosts.ini passgen.yml