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jail – Run tasks in jails¶

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Synopsis ¶

Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing jail

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
remote_addr -	Default: "inventory_hostname"	var: ansible_host var: ansible_jail_host	Path to the jail
remote_user -		var: ansible_user var: ansible_jail_user	User to execute as inside the jail

Status ¶

This connection is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This connection is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors¶

Ansible Core Team

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