issue with community.routeros.command and community.routeros.facts when there is a dash in the username

[agpy]

SUMMARY

If the username contains a dash "-" (something like "ssh-admin"), the connection timeout error will appear.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

ANSIBLE VERSION

2.9.16 and 2.10.2

CONFIGURATION

DEFAULT_ASK_PASS(/home/phil/ansible/ansible.cfg) = False
DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(/home/phil/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['/home/phil/ansible/myhosts']
DEPRECATION_WARNINGS(/home/phil/ansible/ansible.cfg) = False

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Debian buster

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Make the username with a dash inside it (eg ssh-admin) for login on routeros device. And then try to start playbook with him.

- name: RouterOS test with network_cli connection
  hosts: mikrotik_server
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:

   - community.routeros.command:
      commands:
        - /system resource print
    register: system_resource_print
  - debug:
      var: system_resource_print.stdout_lines

 - community.routeros.facts:
  - debug:
      msg: "First IP address: {{ ansible_net_all_ipv4_addresses[0] }}"

EXPECTED RESULTS

PLAY [RouterOS test with network_cli connection] ************************************************************************************************************

TASK [community.routeros.command] ***************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [172.16.10.172]

TASK [debug] ************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [172.16.10.172] => {
"system_resource_print.stdout_lines": [
[
"uptime: 1w3d23h36m54s",
" version: 6.46.8 (long-term)",
" build-time: Oct/29/2020 08:29:55",
" free-memory: 189.3MiB",
" total-memory: 224.0MiB",
" cpu: Intel(R)",
" cpu-count: 4",
" cpu-frequency: 2400MHz",
" cpu-load: 0%",
" free-hdd-space: 31.3MiB",
" total-hdd-space: 63.5MiB",
" write-sect-since-reboot: 3600",
" write-sect-total: 3601",
" architecture-name: x86_64",
" board-name: CHR",
" platform: MikroTik"
]
]
}

TASK [community.routeros.facts] *****************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [172.16.10.172]

TASK [debug] ************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [172.16.10.172] => {
"msg": "First IP address: 172.16.10.172"
}

PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************************************************************************************
172.16.10.172 : ok=4 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

ACTUAL RESULTS

The full traceback is:
File "/tmp/ansible_community.routeros.command_payload_jqwdps2f/ansible_community.routeros.command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/routeros/plugins/module_utils/routeros.py", line 74, in get_capabilities
capabilities = Connection(module._socket_path).get_capabilities()
File "/tmp/ansible_community.routeros.command_payload_jqwdps2f/ansible_community.routeros.command_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/connection.py", line 195, in rpc
raise ConnectionError(to_text(msg, errors='surrogate_then_replace'), code=code)
fatal: [172.16.10.172]: FAILED! => {
"ansible_facts": {
"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
},
"changed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"commands": [
"/system resource print"
],
"interval": 1,
"match": "all",
"retries": 10,
"wait_for": null
}
},
"msg": "timeout value 30 seconds reached while trying to send command: b'/system resource print'"
}

[felixfontein]

Did you see https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.routeros#prerequisites ? Maybe it's because of that.

[agpy]

Thank you, I verify identities on my devices and they are ok (have not arbitrary symbols). Problem appears if I insert dash in the username. If I remove a dash from the username the problem goes away.

[heuels]

@felixfontein, I guess we could support that — most operating systems allow alphanumeric characters, underscores and hyphens in the username. Will open a PR tomorrow, if you don't mind.