Being able to log in as root is critical to recover from failures, so using bash might not always be the best idea: this is especially true for FreeBSD, where bash is installed via ports and might break on update from time to time, rendering the system inaccessible without jumping through additional hoops. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- guests/playbooks/update/tasks/users.yml | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/guests/playbooks/update/tasks/users.yml b/guests/playbooks/update/tasks/users.yml index a07349f..28ee96a 100644 --- a/guests/playbooks/update/tasks/users.yml +++ b/guests/playbooks/update/tasks/users.yml @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ user: name: root password: '{{ lookup("file", root_password_file)|password_hash("sha512") }}' - shell: '{{ bash }}' - name: 'root: Configure ssh access' authorized_key: -- 2.25.3