ansible_collection_users/roles/user

Ansible Role Users

Ansible role l3d.users.user to create Users with their group and their SSH Public Keys to their account. Optionally you can also create an ansible user and add specified ssh keys to his home and all keys of admin users.

There are two variables to define users. The l3d_users__default_users is ment to put to your group_vars to define a default for your system. The l3d_users__local_users could be put in your host_vars to define host-specific user and admin roles.

Variables:

User Management

• The dictionary-variable for your group_vars to set your general users and admins is l3d_users__default_users.
• The dictionary-variable for your host_vars to set your host-specific users and admins is: l3d_users__local_users. The Option of these directory-variables are the following.

option	values	required	description
name	string	required	The user you want to create
state	present	-	Create or delete user
shell	/bin/bash	-	The Shell of the User
create_home	true	-	create a user home (needed to store ssh keys)
home	string	-	Optionally set the user's home directory
admin	false	-	enable it to give the user superpowers
admin_commands	string or list	-	Commands that are allows to be run as admin, eg. 'ALL' or specific script
admin_nopassword	false	-	Need no Password for sudo
admin_ansible_login	true	-	if admin: true and l3d_users__create_ansible: true your ssh keys will be added to ansible user
pubkeys	string or lookup	-	see examples
exklusive_pubkeys	true	-	delete all undefined ssh keys
password	password hash	-	See official FAQ
groups	list	-	Additional groups for your user
remove	false	-	completly remove user if state: absent
only_sshd_config	false	Skip user and permission creation and only add user to SSHD config

Other Variables

name	default value	description
l3d_users__create_ansible	true	Create User ansible
l3d_users__ansible_user_state	present	Create or delete user ansible
l3d_users__set_ansible_ssh_keys	false	Set SSH Keys for User ansible
l3d_users__ansible_ssh_keys		SSH public Keys. One per line or as lookup
l3d_users__ansible_user_password		Set optional Password for Ansible User, see official FAQ
submodules_versioncheck	false	Optionaly enable simple versionscheck of this role

Example Playbook

- name: Create System with User and Passwords
  hosts: example.com
  roles:
    - {role: l3d.users.user, tags: 'user'}
  vars:
    l3d_users__local_users:
      - name: 'alice'
        state: 'present'
        shell: '/bin/bash'
        create_home: true
        admin: true
        pubkeys: |
          ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIPvvXN33GwkTF4ZOwPgF21Un4R2z9hWUuQt1qIfzQyhC
          ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAG65EdcM+JLv0gnzT9LcqVU47Pkw0SqiIg7XipXENi8
          ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIJz7zEvUVgJJJsIgfG3izsqYcM22IaKz4jGVUbNRL2PX          
        exklusive_pubkeys: true
      - name: 'bob'
        state: 'present'
        admin: false
        pubkeys: "{{ lookup('url', 'https://github.com/do1jlr.keys', split_lines=False) }}"

    l3d_users__create_ansible: true
    l3d_users__set_ansible_ssh_keys: true
    l3d_users__ansible_ssh_keys: "{{ lookup('url', 'https://github.com/do1jlr.keys', split_lines=False) }}"
    submodules_versioncheck: true