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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copying a text file from my Ubuntu Windows Sub System to a remote instance through SSH Post 303027682 by Peasant on Friday 21st of December 2018 11:29:34 AM
Old 12-21-2018
You will put the hostname you wish to use run ansible against.
In your case the hostname of amazon host written in that file.

Check out the /etc/ansible/hosts, it has comments about usage.
This is the default file used if you issue playbook without the -i parameter.

This presumes you have generated a ssh key for user you are issuing commands with and exchanged it with your amazon host.
See ssh-keygen and, since you are on Linux, ssh-copy-id if you haven't.
There is no need to use root accounts for any of the operations, only editing of default configuration files, which you are not doing.

It is also good to mention, using ansible to copy a file to one host is an overhead, since you can use scp to achieve the same.
If you require to execute several actions, copy files, start service(s), install packages on large number of servers ansible utility has a use case.

Otherwise it's like you are using a pneumatic hammer to kill a fly.

Regards
Peasant.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gnome-ssh-askpass

GNOME-SSH-ASKPASS(1)					      General Commands Manual					      GNOME-SSH-ASKPASS(1)

NAME

       gnome-ssh-askpass - prompts a user for a passphrase using GNOME

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-ssh-askpass

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-ssh-askpass  is  a GNOME-based passphrase dialog for use with OpenSSH.  It is intended to be called by the ssh-add(1) program and not
       invoked directly.  It allows ssh-add(1) to obtain a passphrase from a user, even if not connected to a terminal (assuming that an X display
       is  available).	This happens automatically in the case where ssh-add is invoked from one's ~/.xsession or as one of the GNOME startup pro-
       grams, for example.

       In order to be called automatically by ssh-add, gnome-ssh-askpass should be installed as /usr/bin/ssh-askpass.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       The following environment variables are recognized:

       GNOME_SSH_ASKPASS_GRAB_SERVER
	      Causes gnome-ssh-askpass to grab the X server before asking for a passphrase.

       GNOME_SSH_ASKPASS_GRAB_POINTER
	      Causes gnome-ssh-askpass to grab the mouse pointer using gdk_pointer_grab() before asking for a passphrase.

       Regardless of whether either of these environment variables is set, gnome-ssh-askpass will grab the keyboard using gdk_keyboard_grab().

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  It was based on that
       for x11-ssh-askpass by Philip Hands.

															      GNOME-SSH-ASKPASS(1)
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