/etc/shadow

someuser:$1$OalYWROa$ADmk46YfrSYX9q9B4QihV1:16497:0:99999:7:::
someuser1:!!$1$OalYWROa$ADmk46YfrSYX9q9B4QihV1:16497:0:99999:7:::


in this someuser i created manually and assigned the password..

someuser1 i created using cloud-init and passed the same hash key

you can see two '!!' symbols are appended at the starting


 - name: someuser1
    passwd: $1$OalYWROa$ADmk46YfrSYX9q9B4QihV1
    groups: devops
    shell: /bin/bash
    primary-group: devops
    ssh-authorized-keys:
      - ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDAF9+tdGgEU7WHHS3GXd/Zntf1DcRcXDeHmHPR0IpK9DTERbHxrUWjJe3NPLwiXlYrOLr2u7B0fCg4tVkQ9xin1gA9kr+Y+hc3T9dAkuHrGVIYT/hIM4kmEDFNTdk6mQFhy05f3Z+eftIoiZnAcYEocNi7rxiSsuH628no51Xor9vMQ9AyGJsuEwP1WyvGA3sucMDg81nqrWbuqWMuu04f5xhhWTv+ajmA6XEYbSPWctFVc1E+T5k348EnbgODCz0c4qCYFQMeVOA/VoUE2qGJ0q/H9QpM9yOJsDvZfztotzASeYfZi0leatCybQGt+WOSXSJt0lo6MSPHGJwJvjop