Creation of users in pve realm with password

[pvanhemmen]

Hey there,

I'm trying to create an api user in the PVE realm with a password like this:

pve_users:
  - name: api@pve
    password: "MyPassword123"
    groups:
      - api_users

While the user itself gets created correctly, the corresponding password is not stored on the server, thus the user is not able to login. According to the documentation passwords in the pve realm should be encrypted and written to /etc/pve/priv/shadow.cfg. This file does not exist upon creation of the user through this role.

I'm able to set the password for the user from within the web admin manually, upon which the file is created and I'm able to login with the user. Maybe I'm missing something here?

ansible 2.8.5 on macOS 10.15.1
Debian 10.1
Proxmox 6.0-9

Thanx!

[lae]

Hm, the role uses the Proxmox API to create/modify users. I'll see if I can reproduce this.

[pvanhemmen]

If I can help, please let me know!