Key authentication doesn't work about ansible-power-hmc HOT 3 CLOSED

HMC REST API wont support passwordless login (login using ssh keys) . Since powervm_lpar_instance module rely on REST API, it wont support this. And hmc_command is purely CLI based module, hence it support passwordless.

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Thanks, that explains it.
Tried with password, it does not work either in our case. The password contains a "(" character, which leads to:

The full traceback is:
File "/tmp/ansible_powervm_lpar_instance_payload_th83x584/ansible_powervm_lpar_instance_payload.zip/ansible_collections/ibm/power_hmc/plugins/modules/powervm_lpar_instance.py", line 1076, in create_partition
File "/tmp/ansible_powervm_lpar_instance_payload_th83x584/ansible_powervm_lpar_instance_payload.zip/ansible_collections/ibm/power_hmc/plugins/module_utils/hmc_resource.py", line 31, in listHMCVersion
result = self.hmcconn.execute(lshmcCmd)
File "/tmp/ansible_powervm_lpar_instance_payload_th83x584/ansible_powervm_lpar_instance_payload.zip/ansible_collections/ibm/power_hmc/plugins/module_utils/hmc_cli_client.py", line 71, in execute
raise HmcError(errMsg)
fatal: [XXXXXXXX]: FAILED! => {
"changed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"action": null,
"advanced_info": null,
"all_resources": null,
"delete_vdisks": null,
"hmc_auth": {
"password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
"username": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER"
},
...
"msg": "HmcError: b"/bin/sh: 0403-057 Syntax error at line 1 : `(' is not expected.""

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This looks like any issue. Will drop the fix along with Dec release.
As a work around you may proceed with escape character like: pass\(\)word

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