diff --git a/tasks/base.yml b/tasks/base.yml
index 408c265ee3..861ad7f60f 100644
--- a/tasks/base.yml
+++ b/tasks/base.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
   tags:
   - packages
 
-- name: disabled services:
+- name: disabled services
   action: service state=stopped enabled=false name=$item
   with_items:
   - yum-updatesd
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@
   tags:
   - rootpw
 
+- name: add ansible root key 
+  action: authorized_key user=root key='$FILE(${files}/common/ansible-pub-key)'
+  tags:
+  - config
+
 - name: iptables
   action: template src=$item dest=/etc/sysconfig/iptables mode=600
   first_available_file: