Adding public key via playbook only succeeds, when the path is set - even if its the default in the userprofile/ Root/.ssh/authorized_keys

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Bug Summary

My playbook gets marked as successfully executed, but there are no entrys in any authorized_keys files. After trying to set a custom path where the content of the public key gets added the playbook did add the line in the custom path. Then i tried my (default?) path at /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and the key got added there too. I got requested to report the bug from the Ansible forum: https://forum.ansible.com/t/default-code-to-add-public-ssh-key-fails/3702/34

AWX version

AWX 23.6.0

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Installation method

kubernetes

Modifications

no

Ansible version

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Operating system

Ubuntu server 22

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Steps to reproduce

`---

• name: Set authorized keys hosts: all gather_facts: false vars: key_url: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gsg-git/awx_pub/main/awxtestpub" key_content: "{{ lookup('url', key_url, split_lines=false) }}" conversion_cmd: 'ssh-keygen -i -m RFC4716 -f /dev/stdin <<<"{{ key_content }}"' new_key_content: "{{ lookup('pipe', conversion_cmd) }}"

  tasks:

  • name: Set authorized keys taken from url ansible.posix.authorized_key: user: root state: present key: "{{ new_key_content }}" Here i have to add at the end: path: /root/.ssh/authorized_keys`

Expected results

Adding the ssh key at the default location without further config

Actual results

i have to add the path even the default ones.

Additional information

Links for the successfull job log: https://github.com/gsg-git/awx_pub/blob/main/job_237.txt link for the false positive log where nothing gets entered: https://github.com/gsg-git/awx_pub/blob/main/job_263-falsepositive.txt

[gsg-git]

I have been told to open the issue here from the regular AWX Git: https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/14883

[s-hertel]

This is where I asked you to file the issue originally. But, as we previously discussed, your claim is not reproducible (so it's probably a mistake on your end testing, rather than a bug in the module). From https://forum.ansible.com/t/default-code-to-add-public-ssh-key-fails/3702/37:

If you open an issue at Issues · ansible-collections/ansible.posix · GitHub 1 please be sure to include a simple generic reproducer, the full output with -vvv, and the commands you’re running that prove the module didn’t do what it claimed. I wasn’t able to reproduce the issue.

What commands are you running that make you think it's a false positive? From tracing the module just now I am quite sure it's not a bug, but please correct me.