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Nice.

I have a somewhat similar tool but it doesn't do much besides check for password expiry and do password changes.

It uses pexpect but also multiprocessing and multiprocessing.Queue. I built most of it before we started using Ansible at work, but it is still useful in those places where Ansible is clumsy.



Interesting - where is Ansible clumsy?


(just noticed this)

I was just sort of echoing your

    annoyed by the obfuscation and indirection of ...
Ansible's prime raison d'être is not remote execution but configuration management.




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