passwordstore – manage passwords with passwordstore.org’s pass utility

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• Enables Ansible to retrieve, create or update passwords from the passwordstore.org pass utility. It also retrieves YAML style keys stored as multilines in the passwordfile.

Parameters

Examples

# Debug is used for examples, BAD IDEA to show passwords on screen
- name: Basic lookup. Fails if example/test doesn't exist
  debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('passwordstore', 'example/test')}}"

- name: Create pass with random 16 character password. If password exists just give the password
  debug:
    var: mypassword
  vars:
    mypassword: "{{ lookup('passwordstore', 'example/test create=true')}}"

- name: Different size password
  debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('passwordstore', 'example/test create=true length=42')}}"

- name: Create password and overwrite the password if it exists. As a bonus, this module includes the old password inside the pass file
  debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('passwordstore', 'example/test create=true overwrite=true')}}"

- name: Create an alphanumeric password
  debug: msg="{{ lookup('passwordstore', 'example/test create=true nosymbols=true') }}"

- name: Return the value for user in the KV pair user, username
  debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('passwordstore', 'example/test subkey=user')}}"

- name: Return the entire password file content
  set_fact:
    passfilecontent: "{{ lookup('passwordstore', 'example/test returnall=true')}}"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Status

• This lookup is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This lookup is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Patrick Deelman <patrick@patrickdeelman.nl>