Ansible Playbooks on Nodegrid fail when TACACS+ is an authentication provider

[zpe-jose-deleon]

Ansible playbooks fail on Nodegrid when TACACS+ is an authentication provider. SSH to localhost is no longer possible and since ansible requires to ssh to localhost on Nodegrid when using “Central Management” feature, all playbooks fail.

Additional symptom is that if you sudo su - ansible, then try 'ssh ansible@localhost', you will be refused connection. Removing tacacs+ auth provider allows 'ssh ansible@localhost', but then you must delete the hidden ".ansible" folder in /home/ansible to allow playbooks to function again.