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Ansible Tutorial : Ansible modules user & group

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In this topic we will learn about how to manage user and group using ansible modules, we use following ansible module for it.

• Ansible User Module
• Ansible Group Module

User Management

User Module : It is used for user management, create user, delete user and more

To help ansible user module  

ansible-doc user

Ansible Tutorial - ansible-doc

To Check password algorithm of Hosts, its must require to generate password and set password of user because plan text password does not support.

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m shell -a "authconfig --test" | grep password

Generate password :

python -c "from passlib.hash import sha512_crypt; import getpass; print sha512_crypt.using(rounds=5000).hash(getpass.getpass())"

Password: **********

$6$O.RWXg/0E73uMPKe$DF.CGkdD0F/z6Q9Pww31mGxKvgRlhIN3bLXh2U/TKWTbSdax47xxrXe5nehSkxS.rrLdKeJr8rbC5ZwhMJRuC0

Create a User : Using hash password string in ansible

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a 'name=lokcar password=$6$O.RWXg/0E73uMPKe$DF.CGkdD0F/z6Q9Pww31mGxKvgRlhIN3bLXh2U/TKWTbSdax47xxrXe5nehSkxS.rrLdKeJr8rbC5ZwhMJRuC0 state=present'

To Create a user with define shell and home directory

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a 'name=lokesh1 password=$6$n2em3sW/g7aKU6Ek$LgIJnIfmQkCqry3gOHpe8zNodK6yQ01SL2737eYtxjuJtbP0tRo5HRaOlf6.OzjpThGIyHf0kj4dv8f/yA9CN1 state=present home=/tmp/ shell=/usr/bin/lshell'

Ansible Tutorial - Create User with define Shell and Directory 

Change user primary group

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a "name=lokesh group=tesy"

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a "name=lokesh groups=lokesh"

Add user in multiple groups

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a "name=lokesh append=yes groups=lokesh,apache,ftp"

  

Deleting a user

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a "name=ans2 state=absent"

Ansible Tutorial - Delete Users

Ansible Group Management :

To Create Group

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m group -a "name=ansible1"

Ansible Tutorial - Create Groups

   

Delete group

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m group -a "name=ansible1 state=absent"

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