--- - name: Emergency Password Reset hosts: all become: yes tasks: - name: Force reset root password to something known ansible.builtin.user: name: root # Replace 'TemporaryPassword123' with your desired plain text password password: "{{ 'xxx' | password_hash('sha512', 'mycustomsalt') }}" shell: /bin/bash - name: Force reset your main user password ansible.builtin.user: name: volker password: "{{ 'xxx' | password_hash('sha512', 'mycustomsalt') }}"