panos_admin – Add or modify PAN-OS user accounts password

DEPRECATED

Removed in Ansible:
 version: 2.12
Why:Consolidating code base.
Alternative:Use https://galaxy.ansible.com/PaloAltoNetworks/paloaltonetworks instead.

Synopsis

  • PanOS module that allows changes to the user account passwords by doing API calls to the Firewall using pan-api as the protocol.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • pan-python

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
admin_password
- / required
password for admin user
admin_username
-
Default:
"admin"
username for admin user
commit
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
commit if changed
ip_address
string / required
IP address (or hostname) of PAN-OS device.
password
string / required
Password for authentication.
role
-
role for admin user
username
string
Default:
"admin"
Username for authentication.

Examples

# Set the password of user admin to "badpassword"
# Doesn't commit the candidate config
  - name: set admin password
    panos_admin:
      ip_address: "192.168.1.1"
      password: "admin"
      admin_username: admin
      admin_password: "badpassword"
      commit: False

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
status
string
success
success status

Sample:
okey dokey


Status

  • This module will be removed in version 2.12. [deprecated]
  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Luigi Mori (@jtschichold), Ivan Bojer (@ivanbojer)

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