--- - hosts: all tasks: - name: Configure sshd include_role: name: ansible-sshd vars: sshd: AcceptEnv: LANG Banner: /etc/issue Ciphers: aes256-gcm@openssh.com Subsystem: "sftp internal-sftp" sshd_config_file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config - name: Verify the options are correctly set block: - meta: flush_handlers - name: List effective configuration using sshd -T command: sshd -T register: runtime - name: Print current configuration file slurp: src: /etc/ssh/sshd_config register: config - name: Check the options are effective # note, the options are in lower-case here assert: that: - "'acceptenv LANG' in runtime.stdout" - "'banner /etc/issue' in runtime.stdout" - "'ciphers aes256-gcm@openssh.com' in runtime.stdout" - "'subsystem sftp internal-sftp' in runtime.stdout" - name: Check the options are in configuration file assert: that: - "'AcceptEnv LANG' in config.content | b64decode" - "'Banner /etc/issue' in config.content | b64decode" - "'Ciphers aes256-gcm@openssh.com' in config.content | b64decode" - "'Subsystem sftp internal-sftp' in config.content | b64decode" tags: tests::verify