the AIX class uses a unsafe shell for setting the user password (containing a pipe in the command). This patch adopts to the new behavior of module_utils/basic.py (since somewhere around 1.7).
besides it changes the qoutes for the echo command from double to single, because password-hashes contain $-signs and one would not have this variables expanded.
We need to handle the string returned by 'default' in the same way we handle
the string returned by 'status' since the resulting flags are compared later.
* Use the newly added 'default' argument to know if the default flags are set
or not.
* Handle that 'status' may either return flags or YES/NO.
* Centralize flag handling logic.
* Set action variable after check if we need to keep going.
Big thanks to @ajacoutot for implementing the rcctl 'default' argument.
* Make the module support enable/disable of special services like pf via rcctl.
Idea and method from @jarmani.
* Make the module handle when the user supplied 'arguments' variable does not
match the current flags in rc.conf.local.
* Update description now that the code tries to use rcctl for everything if it
is available.
Based on input from @jarmani:
* A return value of 2 now means a service does not exist. Instead of
trying to handle the different meanings of rc after running "status",
just look at stderr to know if something failed.
* Skip looking at stdout to make the code cleaner. Any errors should
turn up on stderr.
The default is not very useful to sort between different
keys and user. Adding the hostname in the comment permit to later
sort them if you start to reuse the key and set them in different
servers. See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/7420
for the rational.
standards compliant return codes but return a verbose error message via
stdout. Limit the times when we invoke the heuristic to attempt to work
around this.
Centos 6.x and below use an old RHT style of configuring hostname.
CentOS 7.x and better use systemd. Instead of depending on the
distribution string which seems to have changed over the course of 6.x
we need to explicitly check the version.
Fixes#8997
