user

Manages user and group accounts.

Requirements

None

Variables

• user_groups: [default: []]: Group declarations
• user_groups.{n}.name: [required]: The name of the group to manage
• user_groups.{n}.gid: [optional]: GID to set for the group
• user_groups.{n}.system: [default: false]: If true, indicates that the group created is a system group

• user_groups.{n}.state: [default: present]: Whether the group should be present or not on the remote host

• user_users: [default: []]: User declarations

• user_users.{n}.name: [required]: The name of the user to manage
• user_users.{n}.uid: [optional]: UID to set for the user
• user_users.{n}.comment: [default: '']: Sets the description (aka GECOS) of user account
• user_users.{n}.group: [default: name]: Sets the user’s primary group (takes a group name)
• user_users.{n}.groups: [default: []]: Puts the user in this list of groups. When set to [], the user is removed from all groups except the primary group
• user_users.{n}.append: [default: false]: If true, will only add groups, not set them to just the list in groups
• user_users.{n}.password: [default: *]: Sets the user’s password to this crypted value
• user_users.{n}.update_password: [default: always]: always will update passwords if they differ. on_create will only set the password for newly created users
• user_users.{n}.shell: [default: /bin/bash]: Sets the user’s shell
• user_users.{n}.home: [default: /home/name or /name for root]: Sets the user’s home directory
• user_users.{n}.dir_mode: [optional]: The mode the home directory (e.g. 0755, 0700)
• user_users.{n}.system: [default: false]: If true, indicates that the user created is a system user
• user_users.{n}.state: [default: present]: Whether the user should be present or not on the remote host
• user_users.{n}.remove: [default: false]: When used with state=absent, behavior is as with userdel --remove

Dependencies

None

Example

---
- hosts: all
  roles:
    - oefenweb.user

License

MIT

Author Information

Mischa ter Smitten

Feedback, bug-reports, requests, …

Are welcome!