title: Ansible : what is default password for the new user created using Ansible 'user' module
body: <p>I am running a ansible-playbook template from another user, which has a task to create a new user:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>---
  
  - name: Create the application user
    user: name={{ gunicorn_user }} state=present
  
  - name: Create the application group
    group: name={{ gunicorn_group }} system=yes state=present
  
  - name: Add the application user to the application group
    user: name={{ gunicorn_user }} group={{ gunicorn_group }} state=present
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here there is no password set for this user.
  The new user is created in system after running the playbook.
  But when I try to login using the newly created user, it is asking for password?</p>
  
  <p>basically, rather than logging in using the new account, my intention is to understand how/why is it asking for a password? since I did not specify a password while creating user.</p>
  
  <p>I checked in /etc/passwd :- </p>
  
  <p>it shows <code>youtubeadl:x:1003:999::/home/youtubeadl:</code></p>
  
  <p><code>youtubeadl</code> is the new user created</p>