Ansible troubleshooting — passwordless account

How to reproduce the `usermod: unlocking the user’s password would result in a passwordless account.` error and how to solve it!

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting and specifically about the “Fatal usermod: unlocking the user’s password would result in a passwordless account.” error.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

demo

The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live demo to show you practically the `usermod: unlocking the user’s password would result in a passwordless account.` error and how to solve it!

• passwordless_error.yml

---
- name: user module demo
  hosts: all
  become: true
  vars:
    myuser: "example"
  tasks:
    - name: create a disabled user
      ansible.builtin.user:
        name: "{{ myuser }}"
        state: present
        password_lock: true
- name: enable user
      ansible.builtin.user:
        name: "{{ myuser }}"
        state: present
        password_lock: false