[SOLVED] Can't ping the server with ansible script

[alhex]

Hello everyone,
I followed a few tutorials to automate my proxmox server and i got stuck really fast, can you please suggest a troubleshoot method or a possible solution?

Situation:
I am using a Windows PC with wsl 2 and ubuntu in Visual studio, the server is on a old laptop (192.168.1.130)
If i try to ssh directly, it works, as soon as i try to ping... it fails


And i have all the files i need (in my opinion)




This is the server



If anyone can see something wrong please let me know.
Thank you

 

[asche]

Hello,
the error is: "permission denied (publickey,password)."
Please check the permissions of the authorized_keys file and the .ssh directory.
SSH works when connecting directly because the SSH client falls back to password authentication.

 

[alhex]

Thank you for the answer.

On the server side i have


And local (Home_Server is the privat key)

 

[bbgeek17]

The best way to key key based authentication working is to use "ssh-copy-id", if you have it on your client.

If you don't, then carefully take the context of your id_rsa.pub from windows host, and place its context as single line , adding it to the end of "authorized_keys" on the PVE.

Make sure you have an established ssh session running, as if you break the file by bad edit you may have issues logging in.
Keep an eye on windows vs unix end of line characters, line breakage, etc.

Cheers

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[alhex]

This login is working, i don't need a password ===> ssh -i ~/.ssh/Home_Server root@192.168.1.130

As soon as i try to ssh 192.168.1.130 or ssh root@192.168.1.130 i am requested a password


And i am back to ping not working

 

[bbgeek17]

@alhex ,
Just because Ansible calls an operation “ping” doesn’t mean it’s actually doing an ICMP ping.

For a web server, “ping” in Ansible might mean making a curl connection to port 80/443. In your case, it’s “pinging” the SSH port by attempting an SSH connection. That connection is being denied with: permission denied (publickey, password)

If you can SSH manually with your key, then Ansible is likely not using the same key. Why that’s happening is outside the scope of PVE installation/configuration, but if you track it down, do post your findings here.

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Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

 

[asche]

@alhex
you are using a different ssh key in your ansible inventory in comparison to your working ssh command:
/home/ansiblepilot2/.ssh/... vs ~/.ssh/... ( Note: ~ will be translated to /root/ not /home/ansiblepilot2/ when you execute the command as root user)

 

[alhex]

i got a bit closer...but still now working

I started the connection in debug mode


lots of bla bla, it didn't searched for my privat key, and then i see this.....


it was searching for something ed25519 related (this is the key type i generated)
So i renamed my privet key "id_ed25519"

Now i am here


asche:

i updated the inventory and nothing changed :/

 

[alhex]

solved


I only needed to delete this