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So it's a less audited application than *SSH that the author is recommending over SSH because it doesn't require user authentication but runs in a daemon with r

So it's a less audited application than *SSH that the author is recommending over SSH because it doesn't require user authentication but runs in a daemon with root privs?

bifrost 7y ago
Not quite. In this case Ansible is enabled by a user logging into the system; The user should not be allowed to login to the system in the first place. Ideally you want your configuration system indepenent of user logins. Ansible has its place, my argument is that it doesn't belong here.