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I'm trying to connect to various servers to change the password of a specific user.

I hope that you can help me to build a Script to do that thing, the complexity is that I have to use sudo and send the password in order to connect on the remote server as root.

I'm trying something like this but is not working:

sshpass -p pass ssh user@server << EOF

  echo pass | sudo -S -u root "echo 'user2:pass2' | chpasswd"

EOF

To better explain what I want to do, these are the steps that I need to do:

1. connect to a server with my user.


2. using "sudo" to connect as a root.


3. execute "echo 'user2:pass2' | chpasswd" in order to change the password of the user2.

This is the error:

Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal. stat: cannot stat `pipe:[2670580091]': No such file or directory [sudo] password for user1: sudo: echo 'user2:XXXXXXX' | chpasswd: command not found

I've executed things as root over ssh using:

ssh -t  you@server <<EOF 

  echo pass_for_you | sudo -S bash -c "commands to do as root";   

EOF 

would this help ? or something similar ? assuming I understood what you are trying to do ?

for i in server{1,2,3}; do

   ssh -t user@$i 'sudo passwd user2'

done

The ansible module "user" should work for your problem. But you have to provide the already crypted password-hash instead.
Make the hash with:

mkpasswd --method=sha-512

Execute a ansible adhoc-command like this with the quoted generated hash-string:

ansible -v all -i <hostname>, --become --extra-vars 'ansible_become_pass=<sudo password> ansible_password=<sudo password>' --user=<ssh user> -k -m user --args='name=root update_password=always password="$6$IZjuXoio1$zHpQQDZGDPwG8mr2R6Mrt1C8Nqstui75enT/o0oSVJ3M6rqff8993kmAaTgbc9q9HTgPD2jtZukEqgeIGKfUN0"'

Prerequesites: ansible and sshpass on client machine.