hang at telnet task about irix_ansible HOT 3 CLOSED

Ah! So the default for password_prompt is "Password: ". IRIX 6.5.22 is only sending "Password:" (no space). So the task never sees the password prompt.

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Actually no -- the issue seems to be the empty password. I can't get ansible to send an empty password; it just hangs at the password prompt, regardless of what password_prompt is set to. If I set a password and the manually modify every password: in the bootstrap tasks to include it, things move forward.

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Standard practice is to run ansible vs a "target" host. That host is specified in the inventory.yml . You should change all of the values in the inventory.yml to match your network. The hostname 'challenge' is not really a value, but you can change it too. It won't matter to ansible, as it's just a way for ansible to group host-specific values.

At a higher level: do not run these plays without deeply understanding what they do. They're tailored to set up my system in the way that I like it to be set up. There's zero guarantee that your system can be set up in this same way -- and since the OS is a different version, I'd find it highly unlikely.

If this is NOT your third or tenth time reinstalling IRIX on this system, you should just use these plays as a reference for "how to do xyz". Write down which ones you did, which ones worked, and which ones needed modification. Then create your own plays for your own system, so that you can quickly get your system back up and running the way you like it when you need to reinstall.

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