I believe this is roughly what you want:
{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.password', '/dev/null', chars=['ascii_letters',
'digits'], length=range(8, 12)|random) }}
1. You cannot nest {{ }}
2. Instead of `range(8-12)` I think you want `range(8, 13)`. First you
want a comma, and then range is non-inclusive of the last number, so you
have to add 1.
3. The password lookup requires a file to write to, even if that is just
`/dev/null` (a normal file is how it has historically achieved idempotency.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:54 AM Kathy Lyons <[email protected]> wrote:
> I looked at that, but we want to vary the length of the password each time
> this is run.
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 12:30 PM Abhijeet Kasurde <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried -
>>
>> - name: Generate random string with length 12
>> ansible.builtin.debug:
>> var: lookup('community.general.random_string', length=12)
>>
>>
>> # Example result: ['Uan0hUiX5kVG']
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 7:40 AM Kathy L <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Currently we are using pwgen to generate our random length passwords,
>>> but we would like to use an Ansible module to make things easier. What I
>>> have is not working -
>>>
>>> set_fact:
>>> user_password: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.password',
>>> chars=['ascii_letters', 'digits'], length = {{ range(8-12)|random }} ) }}"
>>>
>>> Of course it does not like a variable within a variable. Is there
>>> another way to do this with an Ansible module that I am missing?
>>>
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