Ansible: Failed to connect to the host via scp: /usr/lib/sftp-server: No such file or directory

[akulbe]

As a follow-on to my previous discussion, I'm still trying to build Almalinux 9.

vsphere-iso.linux-almalinux: fatal: [default]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via scp: bash: line 1: /usr/lib/sftp-server: No such file or directory
scp: Connection closed", "unreachable": true}
vsphere-iso.linux-almalinux:

I understand this is because of a change made in OpenSSH 9.0, but my control machine that I'm doing the builds from is Fedora 37, and it's running OpenSSH_8.8p1

[akulbe]

I tried adding:

scp_if_ssh = smart transfer_method = smart

to the ansible.cfg but it didn't help

[tenthirtyam]

Please note that this project is only tested based on the operating systems and versions as noted in the README.md - your mileage may vary on alternatives.

Try adding the following to the ansible/ansible.cfg file as noted in the README for another tested OS.:

[ssh_connection]
scp_extra_args = "-O"