Users:

This role manages user accounts and groups on a server. Please see Warnings section below

Role Variables

For creating new groups - groups_present.yml
For deleting groups - groups_absent.yml
For creating new users - users_present.yml
For deleting users - users_absent.yml
vars:
- create_groups
- delete_groups
- create_users
- delete_users

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers_group
  roles:
     - users

License

MIT

Author Information

Role created by RaviTezu - http://ravitezu.me Date: Oct 22 2014

Warnings:

If you are getting this error " one or more undefined variables: 'unicode object' has no attribute 'name' " please use the below format for vars/*.yml files:

groups_present.yml:

---
- 
  name: "group1" 
  state: present
  gid: 5000

I have found that append is not working as expected. "append" option have "no" value by default, and it has to remove the user from all other groups apart from the groups mentioned in the user_present.yml file. In order to get it work, you have to define "groups: []" in the users_present.yml file explicitly.

---
create_users:
-   
  name:  "rteja"
  gecos: "RaviTeja"
  groups: []
  pass:  "$6$xmlbExSxzxKxOxPxzxjxQxnZiUBW8TC8rxbxCxuxtxYxExNxExHxSxxxlrxx8xfxnxTxExrxYxAx.xIxn5xrxPx4xbx1"
  ssh_key: "rteja.pub"

Note: Feel free to mail me at ravi-teja@live.com or open a issue here for any help/issues. Have Fun!

RaviTezu / users