[emmelaich]

Nice.

I have a somewhat similar tool but it doesn't do much besides check for password expiry and do password changes.

It uses pexpect but also multiprocessing and multiprocessing.Queue. I built most of it before we started using Ansible at work, but it is still useful in those places where Ansible is clumsy.

[zwischenzug]

Interesting - where is Ansible clumsy?

[emmelaich]

(just noticed this)

I was just sort of echoing your

    annoyed by the obfuscation and indirection of ...

Ansible's prime raison d'être is not remote execution but configuration management.