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

New in version 2.3.

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

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
ip_address
- / required
IP address (or hostname) of PAN-OS device
key_filename
- / required
filename of the SSH Key to use for authentication
newpassword
- / required
password to configure for admin on the PAN-OS device
username
-
Default:
"admin"
username for initial authentication

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:

Key Returned Description
status
string
 success
success status

Sample:
Last login: Fri Sep 16 11:09:20 2016 from 10.35.34.56.....Configuration committed successfully


Status

Authors

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

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