I have jenkins with ansible plugin and ansible all on the same machine.

I have a playbook, the key line being

local_action: command sshpass -f /home/user/passwordfile ssh user@mint-gitlab-vm ls

Just to add this is just testing things and I used sshpass as I just wanted to try something, in reality I would use ssh keys. So much for quick ....

Anyway, when I run this playbook from the command line, it works, it prints out the listing.

But when I run it within a jenkins job, I get the following error

stderr: Host key verification failed.

Which suggests it is ignoring sshpass and looking for keys.

So, I simply run local_action: command sshpass -V

and that worked as expected, showing the version info. So sshpass is not ignored. But neither is the password being accepted by ssh.

Any ideas? Or is this a bug?

Regards,