Ansible role: users

Manage system user accounts and groups. Tested on RedHat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu but should work for most Linux distributions / flavours.

Requirements

None

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: jgeusebroek.users, tags: ["users"] }

Example Variables

# The location where the pubkeys can be found.
users_pubkey_location: '{{ playbook_dir }}/files/pubkeys/{{ inventory_hostname }}/'

users_available:
  - username: foo
    uid: 1001
    name: "Foo"
    home: "/var/www/foo"
    upload_key: true
    auth_file: "foocustom.pub" # define specific pubkey file (otherwise it will assume username.pub)
  - username: bar
    uid: 1002
    gid: 1080
    name: "Hello World"
    upload_key: true

users_deleted:
  - username: barfoo

users_groups_available:
  - groupname: admin
    gid: 1050
  - groupname: sysgroup
    gid: 801
    is_system_group: true

users_groups_deleted:
  - deleteme

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2015 by Jeroen Geusebroek.