Setting up authentication using a password

Before you begin

Ensure that:

You’ve installed sshpass module on the management host machine.

The management host machine is a RHEL 7.6 machine.
The password that you configure for the user in the hosts file must already be configured on the host machines.

About this task

You can also use password to authenticate with PingIntelligence and MongoDB host machines.

Configure the password of the host machine in the hosts file.

Steps

To add the password in the hosts file, edit the hosts file to configure the password in ansible_ssh_pass parameter as shown in bold in the following hosts file snippet

# Ansible SSH user to access host machines
ansible_ssh_user=ec2-user
# Uncomment the ansible_ssh_pass line and configure password of ansible_ssh_user if you want to use SSH connection with password.
# If you do not use this option, then the SSH user uses password-less authentication.
#ansible_ssh_pass=<SSH_user_password>