It is an Ansible role to:
- Create user groups
- Create a single user, add it to any groups you created and configure its shell
- Set your public SSH key as an authorized key so you can login without a password
- Enable passwordless sudo
When you spin up a new server, you'll often want to set up a non-root user that you can login as and run your applications under. That's because running your applications as root is a questionable idea from a security point of view.
This role sets you up to do that, but it also includes a few other user related tasks, such as what's listed in the above bullets. Having all of these things together in 1 role means less work for you to do!
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic)
- Debian 8 (Jessie)
- Debian 9 (Stretch)
# Optionally create additional user groupss. If empty, the user you create will
# automatically be a part of their user's group, ie. deploy:deploy.
user_groups: []
# The user you want to create.
user_name: "deploy"
# Which shell should you default to? Typically "bash" or "sh".
user_shell: "/bin/bash"
# Do you want to create an SSH keypair for this user? You probably don't for a
# regular user that you plan to login as which is why it's disabled by default.
user_generate_ssh_key: False
# When set, this will copy your local SSH public key from this path to your
# user's authorized keys on your server.
#
# If you don't want this behavior then use an empty string as the value but keep
# in mind this role does not set a default password for the user you create, so
# you will be locked out if you don't supply your public SSH key.
user_local_ssh_key_path: "~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"
# Do you want to enable running root commands without needing a password?
user_enable_passwordless_sudo: True
For the sake of this example let's assume you have a group called app and
you have a typical site.yml playbook.
To use this role edit your site.yml file to look something like this:
---
- name: "Configure app server(s)"
hosts: "app"
become: True
roles:
- { role: "nickjj.user", tags: "user" }
Let's say you want to edit the user name, you can do this by opening or
creating group_vars/app.yml which is located relative to your inventory
directory and then make it look something like this:
---
user_name: "thor"
Now you would run ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts site.yml -t user.
$ ansible-galaxy install nickjj.user
You can find it on the official Ansible Galaxy if you want to rate it.
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