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Ashjoker
Ashjoker

Reputation: 61

How to use ansible to run a script which ask user input?

I want to run a shell script using ansible but the shell script requires user input to execute successfully,

For example: my shell script asking the unique id for an ossec agent, through ansible I can able to predefined my unique id (user input).

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9187

Answers (2)

TheDESTROS
TheDESTROS

Reputation: 151

You need to use EXPECT module: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/expect_module.html

- name: Case insensitive unique id string match
  expect:
    command: ./myscript.sh
    responses:
      "Please enter your uniqueid": "myID"
      # Your input in myscript.sh
  no_log: true

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

python >= 2.6

pexpect >= 3.3

Upvotes: 5

nbari
nbari

Reputation: 27005

This could help you as a starting point:

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local

  vars_prompt:
  - name: your_name
    prompt: "Enter your name"
    private: no

  tasks:
  - name: print name
    assert: that="your_name.strip()"
    args:
      msg: "The your_name argument shouldn't be empty!"

  - debug:
        var: your_name

Check more about prompts, vars_prompt here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_prompts.html

Upvotes: 0

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