How to specify sudo password for Ansible

Question

Hi Guys,

I have one Ansible Playbook. I want to pass the Sudo password to this playbook. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can pass variable on the command line via --extra-vars "name=value". You need to use the Sudo password variable named ansible_sudo_pass as shown below.

$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml --user=username --extra-vars "ansible_sudo_pass=yourPassword"