# (c) 2012, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson # (c) 2017 Ansible Project # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function) __metaclass__ = type DOCUMENTATION = r""" name: pipe author: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson (!UNKNOWN) version_added: "0.9" short_description: read output from a command description: - Run a command and return the output. options: _terms: description: command(s) to run. required: True notes: - Like all lookups this runs on the Ansible controller and is unaffected by other keywords, such as become, so if you need to different permissions you must change the command or run Ansible as another user. - Alternatively you can use a shell/command task that runs against localhost and registers the result. - Pipe lookup internally invokes Popen with shell=True (this is required and intentional). This type of invocation is considered a security issue if appropriate care is not taken to sanitize any user provided or variable input. It is strongly recommended to pass user input or variable input via quote filter before using with pipe lookup. See example section for this. Read more about this L(Bandit B602 docs,https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html) """ EXAMPLES = r""" - name: raw result of running date command ansible.builtin.debug: msg: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.pipe', 'date') }}" - name: Always use quote filter to make sure your variables are safe to use with shell ansible.builtin.debug: msg: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.pipe', 'getent passwd ' + myuser | quote ) }}" """ RETURN = r""" _string: description: - stdout from command type: list elements: str """ import subprocess from ansible.errors import AnsibleError from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase class LookupModule(LookupBase): def run(self, terms, variables, **kwargs): ret = [] for term in terms: ''' https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#popen-constructor The shell argument (which defaults to False) specifies whether to use the shell as the program to execute. If shell is True, it is recommended to pass args as a string rather than as a sequence https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/6550 ''' term = str(term) p = subprocess.Popen(term, cwd=self._loader.get_basedir(), shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) (stdout, stderr) = p.communicate() if p.returncode == 0: ret.append(stdout.decode("utf-8").rstrip()) else: raise AnsibleError("lookup_plugin.pipe(%s) returned %d" % (term, p.returncode)) return ret