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mpdehaan2 on July 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ansible Simply Kicks Ass

That's one way, you could also allow SSH key access as root too.

Ansible also has a --ask-pass and --ask-sudo-pass if you want to provide a password.

herge on July 3, 2013 [–]

So you store a password that will give you root/sudo on your production machine in your deployment code, or just on your ci server?

mpdehaan2 on July 3, 2013 | [–]

I would suggest just using keys in this case.

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