paloaltonetworks.panos.panos_admpwd (2.19.1) — module

change admin password of PAN-OS device using SSH with SSH key

| "added in version" 1.0.0 of paloaltonetworks.panos"

Authors: Luigi Mori (@jtschichold), Ivan Bojer (@ivanbojer)

Install collection

Install with ansible-galaxy collection install paloaltonetworks.panos:==2.19.1


Add to requirements.yml

  collections:
    - name: paloaltonetworks.panos
      version: 2.19.1

Description

Change the admin password of PAN-OS via SSH using a SSH key for authentication.

Useful for AWS instances where the first login should be done via SSH.


Requirements

Usage examples

  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Tries for 10 times to set the admin password of 192.168.1.1 to "badpassword"
# via SSH, authenticating using key /tmp/ssh.key
- name: set admin password
  paloaltonetworks.panos.panos_admpwd:
    ip_address: "192.168.1.1"
    username: "admin"
    key_filename: "/tmp/ssh.key"
    newpassword: "badpassword"
  register: result
  until: result is not failed
  retries: 10
  delay: 30

Inputs

    
username:
    default: admin
    description:
    - username for initial authentication
    required: false
    type: str

ip_address:
    description:
    - IP address (or hostname) of PAN-OS device
    required: true
    type: str

newpassword:
    description:
    - password to configure for admin on the PAN-OS device
    required: true
    type: str

key_filename:
    description:
    - filename of the SSH Key to use for authentication
    required: true
    type: str

Outputs

status:
  description: success status
  returned: success
  sample: 'Last login: Fri Sep 16 11:09:20 2016 from 10.35.34.56.....Configuration
    committed successfully'
  type: str