Cannot change GAiA admin password via ansible/API

[cm]

Hi,

I'm trying to automate initial configuration of GAiA gateways and I have an issue when trying to change the password for "admin", like this:

  - name: set admin user password hash
    check_point.gaia.cp_gaia_user:
      name: admin
      password_hash: $6$xxxxx
      must_change_password: False

When I try this, I get an error:

Checkpoint device returned error 400 with message {'code': 'err_validation_failed', 'errors': 'Cannot change this attribute of user admin', 'msg': 'Validation Error'}

This also happens when I use "password" instead of "password_hash", and it is limited to the "admin" user. I am accessing the API as a separate user "apiuser" because I thought maybe the password of the accessing user cannot be changed, but that's not the issue.

This is on R81.20 JHF89/API level 1.7

So, how do I change that password via the API and ansible?

[the_rock]

Is this management or gateway?

Andy

[the_rock]

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/APIs/?#clish/set-user~v2%20

[cm]

That's on the gateway, so using the GAiA API, not the mgmt API...

[the_rock]

Hm, that link I sent is gaia cli.

Andy

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/APIs/?#clish/set-user~v1.7%20

[cm]

I don't think so. That's just the management API as called from clish, not the GAiA API which is a different beast. The link you posted affects the user objects in the SMC, not the GAiA users...

[the_rock]

Maybe below?

Andy

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/GaiaAPIs/#web/set-user~v1.8%20

[PhoneBoy]

Just to confirm, you can change other users passwords using this playbook, but not the admin user?

[Jim_Oqvist]

Hi PhoneBoy, 

Yes that is correct, the error message is only presented when you try to change the user "admin" se below result using this playbook: https://github.com/checkpointsw-devsec/chkp-api-examples/blob/master/Ansible/Gaia/cp_gaia_user.yml 

TASK [Set password for the test user] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.233.51] => {
    "changed": true,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "allow_access_using": [
                "CLI",
                "Web-UI"
            ],
            "homedir": null,
            "must_change_password": null,
            "name": "test",
            "password": null,
            "password_hash": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
            "primary_system_group_id": 100,
            "real_name": "test user",
            "roles": null,
            "secondary_system_groups": null,
            "shell": "cli",
            "state": "present",
            "uid": null,
            "unlock": null
        }
    },
    "user": {
        "allow_access_using": [],
        "homedir": "/home/test",
        "locked": "",
        "must_change_password": "",
        "name": "test",
        "primary_system_group_id": 100,
        "real_name": "test user",
        "requires_two_factor_authentication": false,
        "roles": [],
        "secondary_system_groups": [],
        "shell": "cli",
        "uid": 0
    }
}

TASK [print test user settings] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [192.168.233.51] => {
    "msg": {
        "changed": true,
        "failed": false,
        "user": {
            "allow_access_using": [],
            "homedir": "/home/test",
            "locked": "",
            "must_change_password": "",
            "name": "test",
            "primary_system_group_id": 100,
            "real_name": "test user",
            "requires_two_factor_authentication": false,
            "roles": [],
            "secondary_system_groups": [],
            "shell": "cli",
            "uid": 0
        },
        "warnings": [
            "Module did not set no_log for must_change_password"
        ]
    }
}

TASK [Set password for the admin user] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [192.168.233.51]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "allow_access_using": [
                "CLI",
                "Web-UI"
            ],
            "homedir": null,
            "must_change_password": null,
            "name": "admin",
            "password": null,
            "password_hash": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
            "primary_system_group_id": 100,
            "real_name": null,
            "roles": null,
            "secondary_system_groups": null,
            "shell": "cli",
            "state": "present",
            "uid": null,
            "unlock": null
        }
    },
    "msg": "Checkpoint device returned error 400 with message {'code': 'err_validation_failed', 'errors': 'Cannot change this attribute of user admin', 'msg': 'Validation Error'}"
}
PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
192.168.233.51             : ok=5    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0 

[Jim_Oqvist · Accepted solution]

Hi,

it seems to be a bug in the ansible collection.

it is possible to change the admin password using the set-user api call directly (https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/GaiaAPIs/index.html#cli/set-user~v1.7%20).

It also seems like this is only triggered when trying to change the password of the user "admin" if you crate a new user for example called test it works as expected.

This is reproducible with this playbook https://github.com/checkpointsw-devsec/chkp-api-examples/blob/master/Ansible/Gaia/cp_gaia_user.yml 

I suggest you open a issue here: https://github.com/CheckPointSW/CheckPointAnsibleGAIACollection or if you open a service request with TAC to get it solved.

Kind Regards

Jim

[cm]

Thanks for confirming that the problem is not on my side. I'll proceed with a TAC case...

[Jim_Oqvist]

Hi,

I have informed the relevant R&D owner and have also reported this as an issue on Github here: 

There is a bug in the ansible module: cp_gaia_user - Failing to change password-hash of user with na...