What is the nature and description of the request?

Customer is using Ansible to manage Aruba devices but Ansible is failing to connect to connect to them. When password configuration-control is disabled, Ansible has no trouble connecting or authenticating. When it is enabled, it apparently fails because the Aruba device is expecting SSH keyboard-interactive and disconnects. Lastly, enabling this option also disables the HTTP rest endpoints.

This RFE is not related to adding keyboard-interactive to ansible-core network collection. The purpose of this RFE is to have Red Hat / Ansible BU work with Aruba to figure out the best way forward for the situation.

Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

Customer manages a few thousand Aruba devices.

How would you like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here)

Not entirely sure. I think a large discussion will need to be had with Aruba. I've opened a request to add keyboard-interactive auth method to Ansible's network collections but that was closed as "Wont-Do".

• https://issues.redhat.com/browse/AAPRFE-1980

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