ssh-copy-id

This role provides the ability to authorize remote systems for passwordless SSH authentication.

This role is helpful when you have a remote machine you want to use by ansible and wish to use SSH key based authentication. It will handle setting the SSH keys on the remote machine allowing you to create an ansible inventory file with the remote machine. Then you can easily call any ansible playbook against the remote machine.

Role Variables

Below are the available varaibles you will need to supply to the role.

Variable	Description
hostname	remote system to connect too (FQDN or IP)
username	username to connect to remote system
password	password to connect to remote system
ssh_public_key	public key file (absolute path) to set into remote system
port	SSH port to connect to

Example Playbook

This example play below demonstrates ansible setting up passwordless SSH authentication on a user supplied remote machine that currently does not have SSH key based authentication configured.

---
- name: configure passwordless ssh authentication on a remote machine
  hosts: localhost

  roles:
    - role: rywillia.ssh-copy-id
      vars:
        hostname: 127.0.0.1
        username: username
        password: password
        ssh_public_key: /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
        ssh_port: port

License

GPLv3

Author Information

Ryan Williams