Update playbooks_lookups.rst

Added a warning regarding attempting to create a local password file when the user the playbook is running as cannot create it... causes Ansible to loop at that task.
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udesilva 2016-02-27 20:23:36 +00:00
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@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ This length can be changed by passing an extra parameter::
.. note:: If the file already exists, no data will be written to it. If the file has contents, those contents will be read in as the password. Empty files cause the password to return as an empty string
Caution: Because this runs on the ansible host as the user running the playbook, if the file does not exist, and is not writeable by that user, the playbook will just loop.
Starting in version 1.4, password accepts a "chars" parameter to allow defining a custom character set in the generated passwords. It accepts comma separated list of names that are either string module attributes (ascii_letters,digits, etc) or are used literally::
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