Users

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This is simple user and user groups managment. It suits my needs but pathches are welcome.

Role Variables

There are 3 main variables users_available, users and users_deleted.

List of users

users_avaiable is list of all users as dictionary, where the key is the user name. Each user could have several attributes. I have this variable in vars/users.yml and is included in the playbook in vars section. See variable preferencein tablel beelowto find out their requirements and default values.

name: full name of the user
password: password hash
shell: path to the shell
uid: user id. It's good to keep the id same accross the systems
group: primary group for user, if not exists is created with the same gid as is user account
groups: list of the supplementary groups
is_admin: boolean, this ads user to sudo/wheel group based on the OS
comment: is the comment field in passwd file, if not used name is default

users_available:
  user1:
    name: Name1
    password: <password hash>
    shell: /bin/bash
    uid: 2000
    groups: ['users']
  user2:
    name: Name2
    password: <password hash>
    shell: /bin/bash
    uid: 2001
    groups: ['users', 'devops']

Users to create

users is the list of the users. In this list you could override some values from users_available.

groups
group
shell
uid
password

users:
  - username: user1
    groups: ['users', 'sudo']
  - username: user2
    uid: 20100
    is_admin: True

The username is a key of the users_available dictionary.

Users to delete

users_deleted is list of all users to be deleted

users_deleted:
  - username: user1
  - username: userX

Users SSH keys

users_upload_ssh_keys is boolean, default True. When False the uploading of the users ssh keys is skipped.

users_dir_ssh_keystell, where to found the users ssh keys. It should be absilute path, in my environment it's {{ playbook_dir }}/files/users.

Task will look for {{ users_dir_ssh_keys }}/<username>.pub file.

users_ssh_key_path is used, when you want to place the authorized keys not in home directory. The keys will be in {{ users_ssh_key_path}}/<username>.pub. You need to modify also sshd_config variable AuthorizedKeysFile to {{ users_ssh_key_path }}/%u.pub

Other variables

users_update_password value is one of supported by the ansible module user, default is on_create.

users_create_user_group is boolean, default True. When False the user group creation task is skipped.

users_default_shell is default user shellwhen not specified, default is /bin/bash.

Variable precendce

	users_available	users	required	default
uid	yes	yes	yes	n/a
name	yes	no	yes	n/a
password	yes	yes	no	omit
shell	yes	yes	no	see `users_default_shell`
uid	yes	yes	no	omit
password	yes	yes	no	omit
group	yes	yes	no	`username`
groups	yes	yes	no	omit
is_admin	yes	yes	no	n/a

Dependencies

None

License

BSD

Author Information

Peter Hudec

hudecof/ansible_users