diff --git a/docsite/rst/intro_bsd.rst b/docsite/rst/intro_bsd.rst index a587c539392..d977c9eeadb 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/intro_bsd.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/intro_bsd.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Working with BSD Ansible manages Linux/Unix machines using SSH by default. BSD machines are no exception, however this document covers some of the differences you may encounter with Ansible when working with BSD variants. -Typically, Ansible will try to default to using OpenSSH as a connection method. This is suitable when when using SSH keys to authenticate, but when using SSH passwords, Ansible relies on sshpass. Most +Typically, Ansible will try to default to using OpenSSH as a connection method. This is suitable when using SSH keys to authenticate, but when using SSH passwords, Ansible relies on sshpass. Most versions of sshpass do not deal particularly well with BSD login prompts, so when using SSH passwords against BSD machines, it is recommended to change the transport method to paramiko. You can do this in ansible.cfg globally or you can set it as an inventory/group/host variable. For example:: [freebsd]