From 22cd10bc6f69b5e8b53da392d75a46c1515af1fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael DeHaan Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:48:27 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about wanting to do crypted passwords with $PASSWORD plugin. --- docsite/rst/playbooks2.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docsite/rst/playbooks2.rst b/docsite/rst/playbooks2.rst index e932e4cc940..a47fdc58e9f 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/playbooks2.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/playbooks2.rst @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ Negative numbers are not supported. This works as follows:: .. versionadded: 1.1 'with_password' and associated macro "$PASSWORD" generate a random plaintext password and store it in -a file at a given filepath. If the file exists previously, "$PASSWORD"/'with_password' will retrieve its contents, behaving just like $FILE/'with_file'. Usage of variables like "${inventory_hostname}" in the filepath can be used to set up random passwords per host. +a file at a given filepath. Support for crypted save modes (as with vars_prompt) are pending. If the file exists previously, "$PASSWORD"/'with_password' will retrieve its contents, behaving just like $FILE/'with_file'. Usage of variables like "${inventory_hostname}" in the filepath can be used to set up random passwords per host. Generated passwords contain a random mix of upper and lowercase ASCII letters, the numbers 0-9 and punctuation (". , : - _"). The default length of a generated password is 30 characters. This length can be changed by passing an extra parameter::