Set a administrator password

[roumano]

Hi,

I have modify the templates/scenarios/create_hub to eventually set a administrator password :

{% if softether_master_password is defined %}
ServerPasswordSet {{softether_master_password}}
{% endif %}

It's working well on the first deployment

But it's failed on next deployment on task "Proceed with setup"
as it's type ./vpncmd localhost /server /IN:{{softether_init_script}}
and it's should be :
./vpncmd localhost /server /IN:{{softether_init_script}} /PASSWORD:{{softether_master_password|default("")}}
( with the |default("") it's also working when it's not set a password

my temporary workarround is to stop the service before deploy
but it's not a fix ...

We can replace then " - name: SoftEther | Proceed with setup"
with

shell: ./vpncmd localhost /server /IN:{{softether_init_script}} /PASSWORD:{{softether_master_password|default("")}}

but it's will failed on the first deployment as it's not yet a password set

So i'm not sure how we can handle it ...
a idea ?

[Voronenko]

We need to perform detection, whenever instance was already initialized or this is first run

i.e. create some detection dummy script

shell: ./vpncmd localhost /server /IN:{{softether_detection_script}} /PASSWORD:{{softether_master_password}}
ignore_errors: true
register: softether_detection

and analyze softether_detection.stdout for hints, or, perhaps - this command will just return non zero on failure due to incorrect password.

than we can use later
when: softether_detection | failed

...

[roumano]

Sadly i have failed to do this check as even with only this scenario :

hub vpn

It's failed to connect, so the vpncmd is asking a password (with cpu usage 100% with vpncmd) so the task never finish...

i don't find any option or a trick to doing it.

[roumano]

Maybe need to use expect to get ride of the issue
found this on the Documentation :

• name: Run expect to wait for a successful PXE boot via out-of-band CIMC
  shell: |
  set timeout 300
  spawn ssh admin@{{ cimc_host }}

  expect "password:"
  send "{{ cimc_password }}\n"

  expect "\n{{ cimc_name }}"
  send "connect host\n"

  expect "pxeboot.n12"
  send "\n"

  exit 0

[Voronenko]

I tried except first with this tool - in my scenario it always hanged under ansible, while proceeding ok via raw shell

Let's keep this issue open, I will think, how to solve.

Potentially, sign of the previous install, could be the presence of the generated config on filesystem itself.....
Thus we may assume, that if config present => password is already set... Thus we would have two different init scripts - with password and w/o password.

[aivisol]

I know this is old thread but might be related: Changing softether_vpn_users variable and re running the playbook will actually not change users in the server. I deleted generated folder from the server and that helped.