Ansible - Search regex string in file

Question

I need to search regex string in a file, when this is fulfilled I want a message back. I have problems searching for this string.

Any ideas to solve this?

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  name: check PermitRootLogin
  shell: "sudo cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config"
  register: check_ssh
- debug:
        msg: 'This server is ok'
   when: check_ssh.splitlines()|select('match', '^PermitRootLogin\s*no\s*')|list

thanks for your time and support

Answer 1

Can you try this one:

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  name: check PermitRootLogin
  shell: "sudo cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config"
  register: check_ssh
- debug:
        msg: 'This server is ok'
  when: check_ssh.stdout is match("^PermitRootLogin.*no.*")