SSH forwarding not working for custom role on VMware

[richierampage]

Hi,

I can't get ssh forwarding to work for a task within my custom role.

- command: git push -u origin --all
args:
chdir: /var/www/site/docroot
removes: "/var/www/site/docroot/.git"
register: dir
- debug: var=dir.stdout_lines

The push requires my host key which is forwarded. Works fine manually from the guest and other Ansible commands that don't require key work fine too.

I suspect there is some ssh config/variable somewhere within vlad that is missing from the custom role or it's a vmware issue. Hoping there's an easy fix.

Any help much appreciated!

Thanks

Rich

[dixhuit]

Hi Rich. One way to test if your key has been successfully forwarded is to run the following command from the guest:

ssh-add -L

If successfully forwarded it should return the contents of the forwarded public key file. Hopefully that can help narrow down what's going on with your custom playbook.

[richierampage]

Cheers Dan,

My issue was that I was trying to do too much with the Vlad custom role with other hosts. I was trying to ssh to a server via vlad, so vagrant key was failing even if ssh passthrough is working.

I have now split out my server/deployment stuff into a separate playbook which works fine.

Running ssh-add would be good to add as a local task option, I have to do it everytime I reboot my mac else passthrough doesn't work. I will do a pr if I do it.

[dixhuit]

Running ssh-add would be good to add as a local task option

We already do:

https://github.com/hashbangcode/vlad/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ssh-add

Are you setting the use_host_id variable in your Vlad settings?