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blast
blast

Reputation: 79

Failed to connect to the host...permission denied (publickey, password) unreachable

I'm finding it difficult to run a simple playbook. I already ping target and it was successful. When i run the playbook i get this error:

PLAY [install httpd and start services] ***********************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] ****************************************************
fatal:[192.168.112.66]: UNREACHABLE!=> {"changed": false "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey password)." "unreachable": true}

What's the problem with this?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 41748

Answers (6)

texasdave
texasdave

Reputation: 756

In my case I copied the keys the wrong direction. What needs to happen is the ansible master node needs to copy it's key over to the target nodes, like this:

Generate the master node ssh key

ssh-keygen

then copy it to target nodes, assuming you have the password:

ssh-copy-id demo@IP_address

then ansible ping:

@ansible-master:~$ ansible TARGET-IP-ADDRESS -m ping -u USER -vvv

Upvotes: 1

Shobeira
Shobeira

Reputation: 189

See my answer here.

Basically, append the content of id_rsa.pub file, into the authorized_keys file.

Upvotes: 4

Foxy Fox
Foxy Fox

Reputation: 491

None of the answers given above solved the issue for me, so I have to come up with something else. The following steps helped me to run an ansible playbook on a remote host:

  1. Generate a ssh key pair using ssh-keygen

  2. Add the generated public key using ssh-copy-id or manually.

  3. Create an inventory file at /etc/ansible/hosts and configure the remote host:

     [testservers]
 <remote-host-ip-address> ansible_user=<user-name> ansible_ssh_private_key_file=<absolute-path-to-your-public-ssh-key>

  4. Run your ansible playbook

Upvotes: 1

Nada Magdy
Nada Magdy

Reputation: 9

This worked for me

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@remote-host

Upvotes: 0

Tee
Tee

Reputation: 21

I am guessing you used a password instead of ssh-key. So at the end of your command, add

--ask-pass

Let's say you're running your playbook. Your command will become:

ansible-playbook playbook.yml --ask-pass

Upvotes: 2

vicmunoz
vicmunoz

Reputation: 61

The remote server is denying you the access due your key has a password. Try this before run the playbook:

$ eval `ssh-agent`
$ ssh-add /path/to/your/private/key

Then run the playbook with the options -u and --private-key pointing to the user with access permissions on remote server and the private key you use.

Upvotes: 4

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