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

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status
• Maintenance
  • Author

Synopsis

• 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

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• paramiko

Parameters

Examples

# 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
  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

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

• Luigi Mori (@jtschichold), Ivan Bojer (@ivanbojer)