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+# Copyright 2016 Pierre Chifflier <pollux@wzdftpd.net>
+#
+# SSH + lxc-attach connection module for Ansible 2.0
+#
+# Adapted from ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py
+# Forked from https://github.com/chifflier/ansible-lxc-ssh
+# Hosted on https://github.com/andreasscherbaum/ansible-lxc-ssh
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+import errno
+import fcntl
+import hashlib
+import os
+import pipes
+import pty
+import shlex
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+
+from ansible.release import __version__ as ansible_version
+if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+    from functools import wraps
+from ansible import constants as C
+if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+    from ansible.compat.six import text_type, binary_type
+    from ansible.errors import AnsibleConnectionFailure, AnsibleError
+    from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase
+if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+    from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure, AnsibleFileNotFound
+    from ansible.errors import AnsibleOptionsError
+    from ansible.compat import selectors
+    from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3, text_type, binary_type
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.4.0.0'):
+        from ansible.compat.six.moves import shlex_quote
+    else:
+        from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
+    from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.4.0.0'):
+        from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import BOOLEANS, boolean
+    from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase, BUFSIZE
+from ansible.utils.path import unfrackpath, makedirs_safe
+
+if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.2.0.0'):
+    from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text as to_unicode, to_native as to_str
+else:
+    from ansible.utils.unicode import to_bytes, to_unicode, to_str
+
+try:
+    from __main__ import display
+except ImportError:
+    from ansible.utils.display import Display
+    display = Display()
+
+if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+    import select
+
+
+# only used from Ansible version 2.3 on forward
+class AnsibleControlPersistBrokenPipeError(AnsibleError):
+    ''' ControlPersist broken pipe '''
+    pass
+
+
+def _ssh_retry(func):
+    """
+    Decorator to retry ssh/scp/sftp in the case of a connection failure
+
+    Will retry if:
+    * an exception is caught
+    * ssh returns 255
+    Will not retry if
+    * remaining_tries is <2
+    * retries limit reached
+    """
+    @wraps(func)
+    def wrapped(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        remaining_tries = int(C.ANSIBLE_SSH_RETRIES) + 1
+        cmd_summary = "%s..." % args[0]
+        for attempt in range(remaining_tries):
+            cmd = args[0]
+            if attempt != 0 and self._play_context.password and isinstance(cmd, list):
+                # If this is a retry, the fd/pipe for sshpass is closed, and we need a new one
+                self.sshpass_pipe = os.pipe()
+                cmd[1] = b'-d' + to_bytes(self.sshpass_pipe[0], nonstring='simplerepr', errors='surrogate_or_strict')
+
+            try:
+                try:
+                    return_tuple = func(self, *args, **kwargs)
+                    display.vvv(return_tuple, host=self.host)
+                    # 0 = success
+                    # 1-254 = remote command return code
+                    # 255 = failure from the ssh command itself
+                except (AnsibleControlPersistBrokenPipeError) as e:
+                    # Retry one more time because of the ControlPersist broken pipe (see #16731)
+                    display.vvv(u"RETRYING BECAUSE OF CONTROLPERSIST BROKEN PIPE")
+                    return_tuple = func(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+                if return_tuple[0] != 255:
+                    break
+                else:
+                    raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("Failed to connect to the host via ssh: %s" % to_native(return_tuple[2]))
+            except (AnsibleConnectionFailure, Exception) as e:
+                if attempt == remaining_tries - 1:
+                    raise
+                else:
+                    pause = 2 ** attempt - 1
+                    if pause > 30:
+                        pause = 30
+
+                    if isinstance(e, AnsibleConnectionFailure):
+                        msg = "ssh_retry: attempt: %d, ssh return code is 255. cmd (%s), pausing for %d seconds" % (attempt, cmd_summary, pause)
+                    else:
+                        msg = "ssh_retry: attempt: %d, caught exception(%s) from cmd (%s), pausing for %d seconds" % (attempt, e, cmd_summary, pause)
+
+                    display.vv(msg, host=self.host)
+
+                    time.sleep(pause)
+                    continue
+
+        return return_tuple
+    return wrapped
+
+
+class Connection(ConnectionBase):
+    ''' ssh+lxc_attach connection '''
+    transport = 'lxc_ssh'
+
+    def __init__(self, play_context, new_stdin, *args, **kwargs):
+        #print args
+        #print kwargs
+        super(Connection, self).__init__(play_context, new_stdin, *args, **kwargs)
+        self.host = self._play_context.remote_addr
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            self.port = self._play_context.port
+            self.user = self._play_context.remote_user
+            self.control_path = C.ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH
+            self.control_path_dir = C.ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH_DIR
+        self.lxc_version = None
+
+        # LXC v1 uses 'lxc-info', 'lxc-attach' and so on
+        # LXC v2 uses just 'lxc'
+        (returncode2, stdout2, stderr2) = self._exec_command("which lxc", None, False)
+        (returncode1, stdout1, stderr1) = self._exec_command("which lxc-info", None, False)
+        if (returncode2 == 0):
+            self.lxc_version = 2
+            display.vvv('LXC v2')
+        elif (returncode1 == 0):
+            self.lxc_version = 1
+            display.vvv('LXC v1')
+        else:
+            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure('Cannot identify LXC version')
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+
+    # The connection is created by running ssh/scp/sftp from the exec_command,
+    # put_file, and fetch_file methods, so we don't need to do any connection
+    # management here.
+    def _connect(self):
+        ''' connect to the lxc; nothing to do here '''
+        display.vvv('XXX connect')
+        super(Connection, self)._connect()
+        #self.container_name = self.ssh._play_context.remote_addr
+        self.container_name = self._play_context.ssh_extra_args # XXX
+        #self.container = None
+
+
+    # only used from Ansible version 2.3 on forward
+    @staticmethod
+    def _create_control_path(host, port, user, connection=None):
+        '''Make a hash for the controlpath based on con attributes'''
+        pstring = '%s-%s-%s' % (host, port, user)
+        if connection:
+            pstring += '-%s' % connection
+        m = hashlib.sha1()
+        m.update(to_bytes(pstring))
+        digest = m.hexdigest()
+        cpath = '%(directory)s/' + digest[:10]
+        return cpath
+
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _persistence_controls(b_command):
+        '''
+        Takes a command array and scans it for ControlPersist and ControlPath
+        settings and returns two booleans indicating whether either was found.
+        This could be smarter, e.g. returning false if ControlPersist is 'no',
+        but for now we do it simple way.
+        '''
+
+        controlpersist = False
+        controlpath = False
+
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            for arg in b_command:
+                if 'controlpersist' in arg.lower():
+                    controlpersist = True
+                elif 'controlpath' in arg.lower():
+                    controlpath = True
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            for b_arg in (a.lower() for a in b_command):
+                if b'controlpersist' in b_arg:
+                    controlpersist = True
+                elif b'controlpath' in b_arg:
+                    controlpath = True
+
+        return controlpersist, controlpath
+
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _split_args(argstring):
+        """
+        Takes a string like '-o Foo=1 -o Bar="foo bar"' and returns a
+        list ['-o', 'Foo=1', '-o', 'Bar=foo bar'] that can be added to
+        the argument list. The list will not contain any empty elements.
+        """
+        return [to_unicode(x.strip()) for x in shlex.split(to_bytes(argstring)) if x.strip()]
+
+
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+        def _add_args(self, explanation, args):
+            """
+            Adds the given args to self._command and displays a caller-supplied
+            explanation of why they were added.
+            """
+            self._command += args
+            display.vvvvv('SSH: ' + explanation + ': (%s)' % ')('.join(args), host=self._play_context.remote_addr)
+
+
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+        def _add_args(self, b_command, b_args, explanation):
+            """
+            Adds arguments to the ssh command and displays a caller-supplied explanation of why.
+            :arg b_command: A list containing the command to add the new arguments to.
+                This list will be modified by this method.
+            :arg b_args: An iterable of new arguments to add.  This iterable is used
+                more than once so it must be persistent (ie: a list is okay but a
+                StringIO would not)
+            :arg explanation: A text string containing explaining why the arguments
+                were added.  It will be displayed with a high enough verbosity.
+            .. note:: This function does its work via side-effect.  The b_command list has the new arguments appended.
+            """
+            display.vvvvv(u'SSH: %s: (%s)' % (explanation, ')('.join(to_text(a) for a in b_args)), host=self._play_context.remote_addr)
+            b_command += b_args
+
+
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+        def _build_command(self, binary, *other_args):
+            self._command = []
+            self._command += [binary]
+            self._command += ['-C']
+            if self._play_context.verbosity > 3:
+                self._command += ['-vvv']
+            elif binary == 'ssh':
+                # Older versions of ssh (e.g. in RHEL 6) don't accept sftp -q.
+                self._command += ['-q']
+            # Next, we add [ssh_connection]ssh_args from ansible.cfg.
+            if self._play_context.ssh_args:
+                args = self._split_args(self._play_context.ssh_args)
+                self._add_args("ansible.cfg set ssh_args", args)
+            # Now we add various arguments controlled by configuration file settings
+            # (e.g. host_key_checking) or inventory variables (ansible_ssh_port) or
+            # a combination thereof.
+            if not C.HOST_KEY_CHECKING:
+                self._add_args(
+                    "ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING/host_key_checking disabled",
+                    ("-o", "StrictHostKeyChecking=no")
+                )
+            if self._play_context.port is not None:
+                self._add_args(
+                    "ANSIBLE_REMOTE_PORT/remote_port/ansible_port set",
+                    ("-o", "Port={0}".format(self._play_context.port))
+                )
+            key = self._play_context.private_key_file
+            if key:
+                self._add_args(
+                    "ANSIBLE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE/private_key_file/ansible_ssh_private_key_file set",
+                    ("-o", "IdentityFile=\"{0}\"".format(os.path.expanduser(key)))
+                )
+            if not self._play_context.password:
+                self._add_args(
+                    "ansible_password/ansible_ssh_pass not set", (
+                        "-o", "KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no",
+                        "-o", "PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey",
+                        "-o", "PasswordAuthentication=no"
+                    )
+                )
+            user = self._play_context.remote_user
+            if user:
+                self._add_args(
+                    "ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER/remote_user/ansible_user/user/-u set",
+                    ("-o", "User={0}".format(to_bytes(self._play_context.remote_user)))
+                )
+            self._add_args(
+                "ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT/timeout set",
+                ("-o", "ConnectTimeout={0}".format(self._play_context.timeout))
+            )
+            # Check if ControlPersist is enabled and add a ControlPath if one hasn't
+            # already been set.
+            controlpersist, controlpath = self._persistence_controls(self._command)
+            if controlpersist:
+                self._persistent = True
+                if not controlpath:
+                    cpdir = unfrackpath('$HOME/.ansible/cp')
+                    display.vv(str(C.ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH))
+                    # The directory must exist and be writable.
+                    makedirs_safe(cpdir, 0o700)
+                    if not os.access(cpdir, os.W_OK):
+                        raise AnsibleError("Cannot write to ControlPath %s" % cpdir)
+                    args = ("-o", "ControlPath={0}".format(
+                        to_bytes(C.ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH % dict(directory=cpdir)))
+                    )
+                    self._add_args("found only ControlPersist; added ControlPath", args)
+            ## Finally, we add any caller-supplied extras.
+            if other_args:
+                self._command += other_args
+            return self._command
+
+
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+        def _build_command(self, binary, *other_args):
+            b_command = []
+            if binary == 'ssh':
+                b_command += [to_bytes(self._play_context.ssh_executable, errors='surrogate_or_strict')]
+            else:
+                b_command += [to_bytes(binary, errors='surrogate_or_strict')]
+            if self._play_context.verbosity > 3:
+                b_command.append(b'-vvv')
+            # Next, we add [ssh_connection]ssh_args from ansible.cfg.
+            #
+            if self._play_context.ssh_args:
+                b_args = [to_bytes(a, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for a in
+                        self._split_args(self._play_context.ssh_args)]
+                self._add_args(b_command, b_args, u"ansible.cfg set ssh_args")
+
+            # Now we add various arguments controlled by configuration file settings
+            # (e.g. host_key_checking) or inventory variables (ansible_ssh_port) or
+            # a combination thereof.
+            if not C.HOST_KEY_CHECKING:
+                b_args = (b"-o", b"StrictHostKeyChecking=no")
+                self._add_args(b_command, b_args, u"ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING/host_key_checking disabled")
+            if self._play_context.port is not None:
+                b_args = (b"-o", b"Port=" + to_bytes(self._play_context.port, nonstring='simplerepr', errors='surrogate_or_strict'))
+                self._add_args(b_command, b_args, u"ANSIBLE_REMOTE_PORT/remote_port/ansible_port set")
+            key = self._play_context.private_key_file
+            if key:
+                b_args = (b"-o", b'IdentityFile="' + to_bytes(os.path.expanduser(key), errors='surrogate_or_strict') + b'"')
+                self._add_args(b_command, b_args, u"ANSIBLE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE/private_key_file/ansible_ssh_private_key_file set")
+            if not self._play_context.password:
+                self._add_args(
+                    b_command, (
+                        b"-o", b"KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no",
+                        b"-o", b"PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey",
+                        b"-o", b"PasswordAuthentication=no"
+                    ),
+                    u"ansible_password/ansible_ssh_pass not set"
+                )
+            user = self._play_context.remote_user
+            if user:
+                self._add_args(
+                    b_command,
+                    (b"-o", b"User=" + to_bytes(self._play_context.remote_user, errors='surrogate_or_strict')),
+                    u"ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER/remote_user/ansible_user/user/-u set"
+                )
+            self._add_args(
+                b_command,
+                (b"-o", b"ConnectTimeout=" + to_bytes(self._play_context.timeout, errors='surrogate_or_strict', nonstring='simplerepr')),
+                u"ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT/timeout set"
+            )
+            # Check if ControlPersist is enabled and add a ControlPath if one hasn't
+            # already been set.
+            controlpersist, controlpath = self._persistence_controls(b_command)
+            if controlpersist:
+                self._persistent = True
+                if not controlpath:
+                    cpdir = unfrackpath(self.control_path_dir)
+                    b_cpdir = to_bytes(cpdir, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
+                    # The directory must exist and be writable.
+                    makedirs_safe(b_cpdir, 0o700)
+                    if not os.access(b_cpdir, os.W_OK):
+                        raise AnsibleError("Cannot write to ControlPath %s" % to_native(cpdir))
+
+                    if not self.control_path:
+                        self.control_path = self._create_control_path(
+                            self.host,
+                            self.port,
+                            self.user
+                        )
+                    b_args = (b"-o", b"ControlPath=" + to_bytes(self.control_path % dict(directory=cpdir), errors='surrogate_or_strict'))
+                    self._add_args(b_command, b_args, u"found only ControlPersist; added ControlPath")
+
+            # Finally, we add any caller-supplied extras.
+            if other_args:
+                b_command += [to_bytes(a) for a in other_args]
+
+            return b_command
+
+
+    def _send_initial_data(self, fh, in_data):
+        '''
+        Writes initial data to the stdin filehandle of the subprocess and closes
+        it. (The handle must be closed; otherwise, for example, "sftp -b -" will
+        just hang forever waiting for more commands.)
+        '''
+
+        display.debug('Sending initial data')
+
+        try:
+            if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                fh.write(in_data)
+            if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                fh.write(to_bytes(in_data))
+            fh.close()
+        except (OSError, IOError):
+            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure('SSH Error: data could not be sent to remote host "%s". Make sure this host can be reached over ssh' % self.host)
+
+        display.debug('Sent initial data (%d bytes)' % len(in_data))
+
+
+    # Used by _run() to kill processes on failures
+    @staticmethod
+    def _terminate_process(p):
+        """ Terminate a process, ignoring errors """
+        try:
+            p.terminate()
+        except (OSError, IOError):
+            pass
+
+
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+        # This is separate from _run() because we need to do the same thing for stdout
+        # and stderr.
+        def _examine_output(self, source, state, chunk, sudoable):
+            '''
+            Takes a string, extracts complete lines from it, tests to see if they
+            are a prompt, error message, etc., and sets appropriate flags in self.
+            Prompt and success lines are removed.
+
+            Returns the processed (i.e. possibly-edited) output and the unprocessed
+            remainder (to be processed with the next chunk) as strings.
+            '''
+
+            output = []
+            for l in chunk.splitlines(True):
+                suppress_output = False
+
+                #display.debug("Examining line (source=%s, state=%s): '%s'" % (source, state, l.rstrip('\r\n')))
+                if self._play_context.prompt and self.check_password_prompt(l):
+                    display.debug("become_prompt: (source=%s, state=%s): '%s'" % (source, state, l.rstrip('\r\n')))
+                    self._flags['become_prompt'] = True
+                    suppress_output = True
+                elif self._play_context.success_key and self.check_become_success(l):
+                    display.debug("become_success: (source=%s, state=%s): '%s'" % (source, state, l.rstrip('\r\n')))
+                    self._flags['become_success'] = True
+                    suppress_output = True
+                elif sudoable and self.check_incorrect_password(l):
+                    display.debug("become_error: (source=%s, state=%s): '%s'" % (source, state, l.rstrip('\r\n')))
+                    self._flags['become_error'] = True
+                elif sudoable and self.check_missing_password(l):
+                    display.debug("become_nopasswd_error: (source=%s, state=%s): '%s'" % (source, state, l.rstrip('\r\n')))
+                    self._flags['become_nopasswd_error'] = True
+
+                if not suppress_output:
+                    output.append(l)
+
+            # The chunk we read was most likely a series of complete lines, but just
+            # in case the last line was incomplete (and not a prompt, which we would
+            # have removed from the output), we retain it to be processed with the
+            # next chunk.
+
+            remainder = ''
+            if output and not output[-1].endswith('\n'):
+                remainder = output[-1]
+                output = output[:-1]
+
+            return ''.join(output), remainder
+
+
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+        # This is separate from _run() because we need to do the same thing for stdout
+        # and stderr.
+        def _examine_output(self, source, state, b_chunk, sudoable):
+            '''
+            Takes a string, extracts complete lines from it, tests to see if they
+            are a prompt, error message, etc., and sets appropriate flags in self.
+            Prompt and success lines are removed.
+            Returns the processed (i.e. possibly-edited) output and the unprocessed
+            remainder (to be processed with the next chunk) as strings.
+            '''
+
+            output = []
+            for b_line in b_chunk.splitlines(True):
+                display_line = to_text(b_line).rstrip('\r\n')
+                suppress_output = False
+
+                # display.debug("Examining line (source=%s, state=%s): '%s'" % (source, state, display_line))
+                if self._play_context.prompt and self.check_password_prompt(b_line):
+                    display.debug("become_prompt: (source=%s, state=%s): '%s'" % (source, state, display_line))
+                    self._flags['become_prompt'] = True
+                    suppress_output = True
+                elif self._play_context.success_key and self.check_become_success(b_line):
+                    display.debug("become_success: (source=%s, state=%s): '%s'" % (source, state, display_line))
+                    self._flags['become_success'] = True
+                    suppress_output = True
+                elif sudoable and self.check_incorrect_password(b_line):
+                    display.debug("become_error: (source=%s, state=%s): '%s'" % (source, state, display_line))
+                    self._flags['become_error'] = True
+                elif sudoable and self.check_missing_password(b_line):
+                    display.debug("become_nopasswd_error: (source=%s, state=%s): '%s'" % (source, state, display_line))
+                    self._flags['become_nopasswd_error'] = True
+
+                if not suppress_output:
+                    output.append(b_line)
+
+            # The chunk we read was most likely a series of complete lines, but just
+            # in case the last line was incomplete (and not a prompt, which we would
+            # have removed from the output), we retain it to be processed with the
+            # next chunk.
+
+            remainder = b''
+            if output and not output[-1].endswith(b'\n'):
+                remainder = output[-1]
+                output = output[:-1]
+
+            return b''.join(output), remainder
+
+
+    # only used from Ansible version 2.3 on forward
+    def _bare_run(self, cmd, in_data, sudoable=True, checkrc=True):
+        '''
+        Starts the command and communicates with it until it ends.
+        '''
+
+        display_cmd = list(map(shlex_quote, map(to_text, cmd)))
+        display.vvv(u'SSH: EXEC {0}'.format(u' '.join(display_cmd)), host=self.host)
+
+        # Start the given command. If we don't need to pipeline data, we can try
+        # to use a pseudo-tty (ssh will have been invoked with -tt). If we are
+        # pipelining data, or can't create a pty, we fall back to using plain
+        # old pipes.
+
+        p = None
+
+        if isinstance(cmd, (text_type, binary_type)):
+            cmd = to_bytes(cmd)
+        else:
+            cmd = map(to_bytes, cmd)
+
+        if not in_data:
+            try:
+                # Make sure stdin is a proper pty to avoid tcgetattr errors
+                master, slave = pty.openpty()
+                if PY3 and self._play_context.password:
+                    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=slave, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, pass_fds=self.sshpass_pipe)
+                else:
+                    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=slave, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+                stdin = os.fdopen(master, 'wb', 0)
+                os.close(slave)
+            except (OSError, IOError):
+                p = None
+
+        if not p:
+            if PY3 and self._play_context.password:
+                p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, pass_fds=self.sshpass_pipe)
+            else:
+                p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+            stdin = p.stdin
+
+        # If we are using SSH password authentication, write the password into
+        # the pipe we opened in _build_command.
+
+        if self._play_context.password:
+            os.close(self.sshpass_pipe[0])
+            try:
+                os.write(self.sshpass_pipe[1], to_bytes(self._play_context.password) + b'\n')
+            except OSError as e:
+                # Ignore broken pipe errors if the sshpass process has exited.
+                if e.errno != errno.EPIPE or p.poll() is None:
+                    raise
+            os.close(self.sshpass_pipe[1])
+
+        #
+        # SSH state machine
+        #
+
+        # Now we read and accumulate output from the running process until it
+        # exits. Depending on the circumstances, we may also need to write an
+        # escalation password and/or pipelined input to the process.
+
+        states = [
+            'awaiting_prompt', 'awaiting_escalation', 'ready_to_send', 'awaiting_exit'
+        ]
+
+        # Are we requesting privilege escalation? Right now, we may be invoked
+        # to execute sftp/scp with sudoable=True, but we can request escalation
+        # only when using ssh. Otherwise we can send initial data straightaway.
+
+        state = states.index('ready_to_send')
+        if b'ssh' in cmd:
+            if self._play_context.prompt:
+                # We're requesting escalation with a password, so we have to
+                # wait for a password prompt.
+                state = states.index('awaiting_prompt')
+                display.debug(u'Initial state: %s: %s' % (states[state], self._play_context.prompt))
+            elif self._play_context.become and self._play_context.success_key:
+                # We're requesting escalation without a password, so we have to
+                # detect success/failure before sending any initial data.
+                state = states.index('awaiting_escalation')
+                display.debug(u'Initial state: %s: %s' % (states[state], self._play_context.success_key))
+
+        # We store accumulated stdout and stderr output from the process here,
+        # but strip any privilege escalation prompt/confirmation lines first.
+        # Output is accumulated into tmp_*, complete lines are extracted into
+        # an array, then checked and removed or copied to stdout or stderr. We
+        # set any flags based on examining the output in self._flags.
+
+        b_stdout = b_stderr = b''
+        b_tmp_stdout = b_tmp_stderr = b''
+
+        self._flags = dict(
+            become_prompt=False, become_success=False,
+            become_error=False, become_nopasswd_error=False
+        )
+
+        # select timeout should be longer than the connect timeout, otherwise
+        # they will race each other when we can't connect, and the connect
+        # timeout usually fails
+        timeout = 2 + self._play_context.timeout
+        for fd in (p.stdout, p.stderr):
+            fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_GETFL) | os.O_NONBLOCK)
+
+        # TODO: bcoca would like to use SelectSelector() when open
+        # filehandles is low, then switch to more efficient ones when higher.
+        # select is faster when filehandles is low.
+        selector = selectors.DefaultSelector()
+        selector.register(p.stdout, selectors.EVENT_READ)
+        selector.register(p.stderr, selectors.EVENT_READ)
+
+        # If we can send initial data without waiting for anything, we do so
+        # before we start polling
+        if states[state] == 'ready_to_send' and in_data:
+            self._send_initial_data(stdin, in_data)
+            state += 1
+
+        try:
+            while True:
+                poll = p.poll()
+                events = selector.select(timeout)
+
+                # We pay attention to timeouts only while negotiating a prompt.
+
+                if not events:
+                    # We timed out
+                    if state <= states.index('awaiting_escalation'):
+                        # If the process has already exited, then it's not really a
+                        # timeout; we'll let the normal error handling deal with it.
+                        if poll is not None:
+                            break
+                        self._terminate_process(p)
+                        raise AnsibleError('Timeout (%ds) waiting for privilege escalation prompt: %s' % (timeout, to_native(b_stdout)))
+
+                # Read whatever output is available on stdout and stderr, and stop
+                # listening to the pipe if it's been closed.
+
+                for key, event in events:
+                    if key.fileobj == p.stdout:
+                        b_chunk = p.stdout.read()
+                        if b_chunk == b'':
+                            # stdout has been closed, stop watching it
+                            selector.unregister(p.stdout)
+                            # When ssh has ControlMaster (+ControlPath/Persist) enabled, the
+                            # first connection goes into the background and we never see EOF
+                            # on stderr. If we see EOF on stdout, lower the select timeout
+                            # to reduce the time wasted selecting on stderr if we observe
+                            # that the process has not yet existed after this EOF. Otherwise
+                            # we may spend a long timeout period waiting for an EOF that is
+                            # not going to arrive until the persisted connection closes.
+                            timeout = 1
+                        b_tmp_stdout += b_chunk
+                        display.debug("stdout chunk (state=%s):\n>>>%s<<<\n" % (state, to_text(b_chunk)))
+                    elif key.fileobj == p.stderr:
+                        b_chunk = p.stderr.read()
+                        if b_chunk == b'':
+                            # stderr has been closed, stop watching it
+                            selector.unregister(p.stderr)
+                        b_tmp_stderr += b_chunk
+                        display.debug("stderr chunk (state=%s):\n>>>%s<<<\n" % (state, to_text(b_chunk)))
+
+                # We examine the output line-by-line until we have negotiated any
+                # privilege escalation prompt and subsequent success/error message.
+                # Afterwards, we can accumulate output without looking at it.
+
+                if state < states.index('ready_to_send'):
+                    if b_tmp_stdout:
+                        b_output, b_unprocessed = self._examine_output('stdout', states[state], b_tmp_stdout, sudoable)
+                        b_stdout += b_output
+                        b_tmp_stdout = b_unprocessed
+
+                    if b_tmp_stderr:
+                        b_output, b_unprocessed = self._examine_output('stderr', states[state], b_tmp_stderr, sudoable)
+                        b_stderr += b_output
+                        b_tmp_stderr = b_unprocessed
+                else:
+                    b_stdout += b_tmp_stdout
+                    b_stderr += b_tmp_stderr
+                    b_tmp_stdout = b_tmp_stderr = b''
+
+                # If we see a privilege escalation prompt, we send the password.
+                # (If we're expecting a prompt but the escalation succeeds, we
+                # didn't need the password and can carry on regardless.)
+
+                if states[state] == 'awaiting_prompt':
+                    if self._flags['become_prompt']:
+                        display.debug('Sending become_pass in response to prompt')
+                        stdin.write(to_bytes(self._play_context.become_pass) + b'\n')
+                        self._flags['become_prompt'] = False
+                        state += 1
+                    elif self._flags['become_success']:
+                        state += 1
+
+                # We've requested escalation (with or without a password), now we
+                # wait for an error message or a successful escalation.
+
+                if states[state] == 'awaiting_escalation':
+                    if self._flags['become_success']:
+                        display.debug('Escalation succeeded')
+                        self._flags['become_success'] = False
+                        state += 1
+                    elif self._flags['become_error']:
+                        display.debug('Escalation failed')
+                        self._terminate_process(p)
+                        self._flags['become_error'] = False
+                        raise AnsibleError('Incorrect %s password' % self._play_context.become_method)
+                    elif self._flags['become_nopasswd_error']:
+                        display.debug('Escalation requires password')
+                        self._terminate_process(p)
+                        self._flags['become_nopasswd_error'] = False
+                        raise AnsibleError('Missing %s password' % self._play_context.become_method)
+                    elif self._flags['become_prompt']:
+                        # This shouldn't happen, because we should see the "Sorry,
+                        # try again" message first.
+                        display.debug('Escalation prompt repeated')
+                        self._terminate_process(p)
+                        self._flags['become_prompt'] = False
+                        raise AnsibleError('Incorrect %s password' % self._play_context.become_method)
+
+                # Once we're sure that the privilege escalation prompt, if any, has
+                # been dealt with, we can send any initial data and start waiting
+                # for output.
+
+                if states[state] == 'ready_to_send':
+                    if in_data:
+                        self._send_initial_data(stdin, in_data)
+                    state += 1
+
+                # Now we're awaiting_exit: has the child process exited? If it has,
+                # and we've read all available output from it, we're done.
+
+                if poll is not None:
+                    if not selector.get_map() or not events:
+                        break
+                    # We should not see further writes to the stdout/stderr file
+                    # descriptors after the process has closed, set the select
+                    # timeout to gather any last writes we may have missed.
+                    timeout = 0
+                    continue
+
+                # If the process has not yet exited, but we've already read EOF from
+                # its stdout and stderr (and thus no longer watching any file
+                # descriptors), we can just wait for it to exit.
+
+                elif not selector.get_map():
+                    p.wait()
+                    break
+
+                # Otherwise there may still be outstanding data to read.
+        finally:
+            selector.close()
+            # close stdin after process is terminated and stdout/stderr are read
+            # completely (see also issue #848)
+            stdin.close()
+
+        if C.HOST_KEY_CHECKING:
+            if cmd[0] == b"sshpass" and p.returncode == 6:
+                raise AnsibleError('Using a SSH password instead of a key is not possible because Host Key checking is enabled and sshpass does not support '
+                                   'this.  Please add this host\'s fingerprint to your known_hosts file to manage this host.')
+
+        controlpersisterror = b'Bad configuration option: ControlPersist' in b_stderr or b'unknown configuration option: ControlPersist' in b_stderr
+        if p.returncode != 0 and controlpersisterror:
+            raise AnsibleError('using -c ssh on certain older ssh versions may not support ControlPersist, set ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS="" '
+                               '(or ssh_args in [ssh_connection] section of the config file) before running again')
+
+        # If we find a broken pipe because of ControlPersist timeout expiring (see #16731),
+        # we raise a special exception so that we can retry a connection.
+        controlpersist_broken_pipe = b'mux_client_hello_exchange: write packet: Broken pipe' in b_stderr
+        if p.returncode == 255 and controlpersist_broken_pipe:
+            raise AnsibleControlPersistBrokenPipeError('SSH Error: data could not be sent because of ControlPersist broken pipe.')
+
+        if p.returncode == 255 and in_data and checkrc:
+            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure('SSH Error: data could not be sent to remote host "%s". Make sure this host can be reached over ssh' % self.host)
+
+        return (p.returncode, b_stdout, b_stderr)
+
+
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+        @_ssh_retry
+        def _run(self, cmd, in_data, sudoable=True, checkrc=True):
+            """Wrapper around _bare_run that retries the connection
+            """
+            return self._bare_run(cmd, in_data, sudoable, checkrc)
+
+
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+        def _run(self, cmd, in_data, sudoable=True):
+            '''
+            Starts the command and communicates with it until it ends.
+            '''
+
+            display_cmd = map(to_unicode, map(pipes.quote, cmd))
+            display.vvv(u'SSH: EXEC {0}'.format(u' '.join(display_cmd)), host=self.host)
+
+            # Start the given command. If we don't need to pipeline data, we can try
+            # to use a pseudo-tty (ssh will have been invoked with -tt). If we are
+            # pipelining data, or can't create a pty, we fall back to using plain
+            # old pipes.
+
+            p = None
+
+            if isinstance(cmd, (text_type, binary_type)):
+                cmd = to_bytes(cmd)
+            else:
+                cmd = map(to_bytes, cmd)
+
+            if not in_data:
+                try:
+                    # Make sure stdin is a proper pty to avoid tcgetattr errors
+                    master, slave = pty.openpty()
+                    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=slave, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+                    stdin = os.fdopen(master, 'w', 0)
+                    os.close(slave)
+                except (OSError, IOError):
+                    p = None
+
+            if not p:
+                p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+                stdin = p.stdin
+
+            # If we are using SSH password authentication, write the password into
+            # the pipe we opened in _build_command.
+
+            if self._play_context.password:
+                os.close(self.sshpass_pipe[0])
+                os.write(self.sshpass_pipe[1], "{0}\n".format(to_bytes(self._play_context.password)))
+                os.close(self.sshpass_pipe[1])
+
+            ## SSH state machine
+            #
+            # Now we read and accumulate output from the running process until it
+            # exits. Depending on the circumstances, we may also need to write an
+            # escalation password and/or pipelined input to the process.
+
+            states = [
+                'awaiting_prompt', 'awaiting_escalation', 'ready_to_send', 'awaiting_exit'
+            ]
+
+            # Are we requesting privilege escalation? Right now, we may be invoked
+            # to execute sftp/scp with sudoable=True, but we can request escalation
+            # only when using ssh. Otherwise we can send initial data straightaway.
+
+            state = states.index('ready_to_send')
+            if b'ssh' in cmd:
+                if self._play_context.prompt:
+                    # We're requesting escalation with a password, so we have to
+                    # wait for a password prompt.
+                    state = states.index('awaiting_prompt')
+                    display.debug('Initial state: %s: %s' % (states[state], self._play_context.prompt))
+                elif self._play_context.become and self._play_context.success_key:
+                    # We're requesting escalation without a password, so we have to
+                    # detect success/failure before sending any initial data.
+                    state = states.index('awaiting_escalation')
+                    display.debug('Initial state: %s: %s' % (states[state], self._play_context.success_key))
+
+            # We store accumulated stdout and stderr output from the process here,
+            # but strip any privilege escalation prompt/confirmation lines first.
+            # Output is accumulated into tmp_*, complete lines are extracted into
+            # an array, then checked and removed or copied to stdout or stderr. We
+            # set any flags based on examining the output in self._flags.
+
+            stdout = stderr = ''
+            tmp_stdout = tmp_stderr = ''
+
+            self._flags = dict(
+                become_prompt=False, become_success=False,
+                become_error=False, become_nopasswd_error=False
+            )
+
+            # select timeout should be longer than the connect timeout, otherwise
+            # they will race each other when we can't connect, and the connect
+            # timeout usually fails
+            timeout = 2 + self._play_context.timeout
+            rpipes = [p.stdout, p.stderr]
+            for fd in rpipes:
+                fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_GETFL) | os.O_NONBLOCK)
+
+            # If we can send initial data without waiting for anything, we do so
+            # before we call select.
+
+            if states[state] == 'ready_to_send' and in_data:
+                self._send_initial_data(stdin, in_data)
+                state += 1
+
+            while True:
+                rfd, wfd, efd = select.select(rpipes, [], [], timeout)
+
+                # We pay attention to timeouts only while negotiating a prompt.
+
+                if not rfd:
+                    if state <= states.index('awaiting_escalation'):
+                        # If the process has already exited, then it's not really a
+                        # timeout; we'll let the normal error handling deal with it.
+                        if p.poll() is not None:
+                            break
+                        self._terminate_process(p)
+                        raise AnsibleError('Timeout (%ds) waiting for privilege escalation prompt: %s' % (timeout, stdout))
+
+                # Read whatever output is available on stdout and stderr, and stop
+                # listening to the pipe if it's been closed.
+
+                if p.stdout in rfd:
+                    chunk = p.stdout.read()
+                    if chunk == '':
+                        rpipes.remove(p.stdout)
+                    tmp_stdout += chunk
+                    display.debug("stdout chunk (state=%s):\n>>>%s<<<\n" % (state, chunk))
+
+                if p.stderr in rfd:
+                    chunk = p.stderr.read()
+                    if chunk == '':
+                        rpipes.remove(p.stderr)
+                    tmp_stderr += chunk
+                    display.debug("stderr chunk (state=%s):\n>>>%s<<<\n" % (state, chunk))
+
+                # We examine the output line-by-line until we have negotiated any
+                # privilege escalation prompt and subsequent success/error message.
+                # Afterwards, we can accumulate output without looking at it.
+
+                if state < states.index('ready_to_send'):
+                    if tmp_stdout:
+                        output, unprocessed = self._examine_output('stdout', states[state], tmp_stdout, sudoable)
+                        stdout += output
+                        tmp_stdout = unprocessed
+
+                    if tmp_stderr:
+                        output, unprocessed = self._examine_output('stderr', states[state], tmp_stderr, sudoable)
+                        stderr += output
+                        tmp_stderr = unprocessed
+                else:
+                    stdout += tmp_stdout
+                    stderr += tmp_stderr
+                    tmp_stdout = tmp_stderr = ''
+
+                # If we see a privilege escalation prompt, we send the password.
+                # (If we're expecting a prompt but the escalation succeeds, we
+                # didn't need the password and can carry on regardless.)
+
+                if states[state] == 'awaiting_prompt':
+                    if self._flags['become_prompt']:
+                        display.debug('Sending become_pass in response to prompt')
+                        stdin.write('{0}\n'.format(to_bytes(self._play_context.become_pass )))
+                        self._flags['become_prompt'] = False
+                        state += 1
+                    elif self._flags['become_success']:
+                        state += 1
+
+                # We've requested escalation (with or without a password), now we
+                # wait for an error message or a successful escalation.
+
+                if states[state] == 'awaiting_escalation':
+                    if self._flags['become_success']:
+                        display.debug('Escalation succeeded')
+                        self._flags['become_success'] = False
+                        state += 1
+                    elif self._flags['become_error']:
+                        display.debug('Escalation failed')
+                        self._terminate_process(p)
+                        self._flags['become_error'] = False
+                        raise AnsibleError('Incorrect %s password' % self._play_context.become_method)
+                    elif self._flags['become_nopasswd_error']:
+                        display.debug('Escalation requires password')
+                        self._terminate_process(p)
+                        self._flags['become_nopasswd_error'] = False
+                        raise AnsibleError('Missing %s password' % self._play_context.become_method)
+                    elif self._flags['become_prompt']:
+                        # This shouldn't happen, because we should see the "Sorry,
+                        # try again" message first.
+                        display.debug('Escalation prompt repeated')
+                        self._terminate_process(p)
+                        self._flags['become_prompt'] = False
+                        raise AnsibleError('Incorrect %s password' % self._play_context.become_method)
+
+                # Once we're sure that the privilege escalation prompt, if any, has
+                # been dealt with, we can send any initial data and start waiting
+                # for output.
+
+                if states[state] == 'ready_to_send':
+                    if in_data:
+                        self._send_initial_data(stdin, in_data)
+                    state += 1
+
+                # Now we're awaiting_exit: has the child process exited? If it has,
+                # and we've read all available output from it, we're done.
+
+                if p.poll() is not None:
+                    if not rpipes or not rfd:
+                        break
+
+                    # When ssh has ControlMaster (+ControlPath/Persist) enabled, the
+                    # first connection goes into the background and we never see EOF
+                    # on stderr. If we see EOF on stdout and the process has exited,
+                    # we're probably done. We call select again with a zero timeout,
+                    # just to make certain we don't miss anything that may have been
+                    # written to stderr between the time we called select() and when
+                    # we learned that the process had finished.
+
+                    if p.stdout not in rpipes:
+                        timeout = 0
+                        continue
+
+                # If the process has not yet exited, but we've already read EOF from
+                # its stdout and stderr (and thus removed both from rpipes), we can
+                # just wait for it to exit.
+
+                elif not rpipes:
+                    p.wait()
+                    break
+
+                # Otherwise there may still be outstanding data to read.
+
+            # close stdin after process is terminated and stdout/stderr are read
+            # completely (see also issue #848)
+            stdin.close()
+
+            if C.HOST_KEY_CHECKING:
+                if cmd[0] == b"sshpass" and p.returncode == 6:
+                    raise AnsibleError('Using a SSH password instead of a key is not possible because Host Key checking is enabled and sshpass does not support this.  Please add this host\'s fingerprint to your known_hosts file to manage this host.')
+
+            controlpersisterror = 'Bad configuration option: ControlPersist' in stderr or 'unknown configuration option: ControlPersist' in stderr
+            if p.returncode != 0 and controlpersisterror:
+                raise AnsibleError('using -c ssh on certain older ssh versions may not support ControlPersist, set ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS="" (or ssh_args in [ssh_connection] section of the config file) before running again')
+
+            if p.returncode == 255 and in_data:
+                raise AnsibleConnectionFailure('SSH Error: data could not be sent to the remote host. Make sure this host can be reached over ssh')
+
+            return (p.returncode, stdout, stderr)
+
+
+    def _exec_command(self, cmd, in_data=None, sudoable=True):
+        ''' run a command on the remote host '''
+
+        super(Connection, self).exec_command(cmd, in_data=in_data, sudoable=sudoable)
+
+        display.vvv(u"ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: {0}".format(self._play_context.remote_user), host=self._play_context.remote_addr)
+
+        # we can only use tty when we are not pipelining the modules. piping
+        # data into /usr/bin/python inside a tty automatically invokes the
+        # python interactive-mode but the modules are not compatible with the
+        # interactive-mode ("unexpected indent" mainly because of empty lines)
+
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            ssh_executable = self._play_context.ssh_executable
+        if in_data:
+            if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                cmd = self._build_command('ssh', self.host, cmd)
+            if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                cmd = self._build_command(ssh_executable, self.host, cmd)
+        else:
+            if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                cmd = self._build_command('ssh', '-tt', self.host, cmd)
+            if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                cmd = self._build_command(ssh_executable, '-tt', self.host, cmd)
+
+        (returncode, stdout, stderr) = self._run(cmd, in_data, sudoable=sudoable)
+
+        return (returncode, stdout, stderr)
+
+
+    def dir_print(self,obj):
+        for attr_name in dir(obj):
+            try:
+                attr_value = getattr(obj, attr_name)
+                print(attr_name, attr_value, callable(attr_value))
+            except:
+                pass
+
+
+    #
+    # Main public methods
+    #
+    def exec_command(self, cmd, in_data=None, sudoable=False):
+        ''' run a command on the chroot '''
+        display.vvv('XXX exec_command: %s' % cmd)
+        super(Connection, self).exec_command(cmd, in_data=in_data, sudoable=sudoable)
+
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            ssh_executable = self._play_context.ssh_executable
+        ##print dir(self)
+        ##print dir(self._play_context)
+        ##print self._play_context._attributes
+        #self.dir_print(self._play_context)
+        #vm = self._play_context.get_ds()
+        #print( vm )
+        #raise "blah"
+        h = self.container_name
+        if (self.lxc_version == 2):
+            lxc_cmd = 'sudo -i lxc exec %s --mode=non-interactive -- /bin/sh -c %s'  \
+                    % (pipes.quote(h),
+                       pipes.quote(cmd))
+        elif (self.lxc_version == 1):
+            lxc_cmd = 'sudo -i lxc-attach --name %s -- /bin/sh -c %s'  \
+                    % (pipes.quote(h),
+                       pipes.quote(cmd))
+        if in_data:
+            if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                cmd = self._build_command('ssh', self.host, lxc_cmd)
+            if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                cmd = self._build_command(ssh_executable, self.host, lxc_cmd)
+        else:
+            if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                cmd = self._build_command('ssh', '-tt', self.host, lxc_cmd)
+            if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                cmd = self._build_command(ssh_executable, '-tt', self.host, lxc_cmd)
+        #self.ssh.exec_command(lxc_cmd,in_data,sudoable)
+        (returncode, stdout, stderr) = self._run(cmd, in_data, sudoable=sudoable)
+        return (returncode, stdout, stderr)
+
+
+    def put_file(self, in_path, out_path):
+        ''' transfer a file from local to lxc '''
+        super(Connection, self).put_file(in_path, out_path)
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            display.vvv('XXX put_file %s %s' % (in_path,out_path))
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            display.vvv(u"PUT {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path), host=self.host)
+        ssh_executable = self._play_context.ssh_executable
+
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            if not os.path.exists(in_path):
+                raise errors.AnsibleFileNotFound("file or module does not exist: %s" % in_path)
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            if not os.path.exists(to_bytes(in_path, errors='surrogate_or_strict')):
+                raise AnsibleFileNotFound("file or module does not exist: {0}".format(to_native(in_path)))
+
+        with open(in_path,'r') as in_f:
+            in_data = in_f.read()
+            cmd = ('cat > %s; echo -n done' % pipes.quote(out_path))
+            h = self.container_name
+            if (self.lxc_version == 2):
+                lxc_cmd = 'lxc exec %s --mode=non-interactive -- /bin/sh -c %s'  \
+                        % (pipes.quote(h),
+                           pipes.quote(cmd))
+            elif (self.lxc_version == 1):
+                lxc_cmd = 'lxc-attach --name %s -- /bin/sh -c %s'  \
+                        % (pipes.quote(h),
+                           pipes.quote(cmd))
+            if in_data:
+                if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                    cmd = self._build_command('ssh', self.host, lxc_cmd)
+                if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                    cmd = self._build_command(ssh_executable, self.host, lxc_cmd)
+            else:
+                if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                    cmd = self._build_command('ssh', '-tt', self.host, lxc_cmd)
+                if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+                    cmd = self._build_command(ssh_executable, '-tt', self.host, lxc_cmd)
+            #self.ssh.exec_command(lxc_cmd,in_data,sudoable)
+            (returncode, stdout, stderr) = self._run(cmd, in_data, sudoable=False)
+            return (returncode, stdout, stderr)
+
+
+    def fetch_file(self, in_path, out_path):
+        ''' fetch a file from lxc to local '''
+        super(Connection, self).fetch_file(in_path, out_path)
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            display.vvv('XXX fetch_file %s %s' % (in_path,out_path))
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            display.vvv(u"FETCH {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path), host=self.host)
+        ssh_executable = self._play_context.ssh_executable
+
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            cmd = ('cat %s' % pipes.quote(in_path))
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            cmd = ('cat < %s' % pipes.quote(in_path))
+        h = self.container_name
+        if (self.lxc_version == 2):
+            lxc_cmd = 'lxc exec %s --mode=non-interactive -- /bin/sh -c %s'  \
+                    % (pipes.quote(h),
+                       pipes.quote(cmd))
+        elif (self.lxc_version == 1):
+            lxc_cmd = 'lxc-attach --name %s -- /bin/sh -c %s'  \
+                    % (pipes.quote(h),
+                       pipes.quote(cmd))
+
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            in_data = None
+            if in_data:
+                cmd = self._build_command('ssh', self.host, lxc_cmd)
+            else:
+                cmd = self._build_command('ssh', '-tt', self.host, lxc_cmd)
+            (returncode, stdout, stderr) = self._run(cmd, in_data, sudoable=False)
+            if returncode != 0:
+                raise AnsibleError("failed to transfer file from {0}:\n{1}\n{2}".format(in_path, stdout, stderr))
+            with open(out_path,'w') as out_f:
+                out_f.write(stdout)
+
+        if LooseVersion(ansible_version) >= LooseVersion('2.3.0.0'):
+            cmd = self._build_command(ssh_executable, self.host, lxc_cmd)
+            (returncode, stdout, stderr) = self._run(cmd, None, sudoable=False)
+
+        if returncode != 0:
+            raise AnsibleError("failed to transfer file from {0}:\n{1}\n{2}".format(in_path, stdout, stderr))
+        with open(out_path,'w') as out_f:
+            out_f.write(stdout)
+
+        return (returncode, stdout, stderr)
+
+
+    # only used from Ansible version 2.3 on forward
+    def reset(self):
+        # If we have a persistent ssh connection (ControlPersist), we can ask it to stop listening.
+        cmd = self._build_command(self._play_context.ssh_executable, '-O', 'stop', self.host)
+        controlpersist, controlpath = self._persistence_controls(cmd)
+        if controlpersist:
+            display.vvv(u'sending stop: %s' % cmd)
+            p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+            stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
+            status_code = p.wait()
+            if status_code != 0:
+                raise AnsibleError("Cannot reset connection:\n%s" % stderr)
+        self.close()
+
+
+    def close(self):
+        ''' terminate the connection; nothing to do here '''
+        display.vvv('XXX close')
+        super(Connection, self).close()
+        #self.ssh.close()
+        self._connected = False
diff --git a/ansible/connection_plugins/lxc_ssh.pyc b/ansible/connection_plugins/lxc_ssh.pyc
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/ansible/connection_plugins/lxc_ssh.pyc