diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/network/eos/eos_user.py b/lib/ansible/modules/network/eos/eos_user.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+DOCUMENTATION = """
+---
+module: eos_user
+version_added: "2.3"
+author: "Peter Sprygada (@privateip)"
+short_description: Manage the collection of local users on EOS devices
+description:
+  - This module provides declarative management of the local usernames
+    configured on Arista EOS devices.  It allows playbooks to manage
+    either individual usernames or the collection of usernames in the
+    current running config.  It also supports purging usernames from the
+    configuration that are not explicitly defined.
+notes:
+  - This module requires connection to be network_cli
+options:
+  users:
+    description:
+      - The set of username objects to be configured on the remote
+        Arista EOS device.  The list entries can either be the username
+        or a hash of username and properties.  This argument is mutually
+        exclusive with the C(username) argument.
+    required: false
+    default: null
+  username:
+    description:
+      - The username to be configured on the remote Arista EOS
+        device.  This argument accepts a stringv value and is mutually
+        exclusive with the C(users) argument.
+    required: false
+    default: null
+  update_password:
+    description:
+      - Since passwords are encrypted in the device running config, this
+        argument will instruct the module when to change the password.  When
+        set to C(always), the password will always be updated in the device
+        and when set to C(on_create) the password will be updated only if
+        the username is created.
+    required: false
+    default: always
+    choices: ['on_create', 'always']
+  privilege:
+    description:
+      - The C(privilege) argument configures the privilege level of the
+        user when logged into the system.  This argument accepts integer
+        values in the range of 1 to 15.
+    required: false
+    default: null
+  role:
+    description:
+      - The C(role) argument configures the role for the username in the
+        device running configuration.  The argument accepts a string value
+        defining the role name.  This argument does not check if the role
+        has been configured on the device.
+    required: false
+    default: null
+  sshkey:
+    description:
+      - The C(sshkey) argument defines the SSH public key to configure
+        for the username.  This argument accepts a valid SSH key value.
+    required: false
+    default: null
+  nopassword:
+    description:
+      - The C(nopassword) argument defines the username without assigning
+        a password.  This will allow the user to login to the system
+        without being authenticated by a password.  This argument accepts
+        boolean values.
+    required: false
+    default: null
+    choices: ['true', 'false']
+  purge:
+    description:
+      - The C(purge) argument instructs the module to consider the
+        resource definition absolute.  It will remove any previously
+        configured usernames on the device with the exception of the
+        `admin` user which cannot be deleted per EOS constraints.
+    required: false
+    default: false
+  state:
+    description:
+      - The C(state) argument configures the state of the uername definition
+        as it relates to the device operational configuration.  When set
+        to I(present), the username(s) should be configured in the device active
+        configuration and when set to I(absent) the username(s) should not be
+        in the device active configuration
+    required: false
+    default: present
+    choices: ['present', 'absent']
+"""
+
+EXAMPLES = """
+- name: create a new user
+  eos_user:
+    username: ansible
+    sshkey: "{{ lookup('file', '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"
+    state: present
+
+- name: remove all users except admin
+  eos_user:
+    purge: yes
+
+- name: set multiple users to privilege level
+  users:
+    - username: netop
+    - username: netend
+  privilege: 15
+  state: present
+"""
+
+RETURN = """
+commands:
+  description: The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device
+  returned: always
+  type: list
+  sample:
+    - username ansible secret password
+    - username admin secret admin
+session_name:
+  description: The EOS config session name used to load the configuration
+  returned: when changed is True
+  type: str
+  sample: ansible_1479315771
+start:
+  description: The time the job started
+  returned: always
+  type: str
+  sample: "2016-11-16 10:38:15.126146"
+end:
+  description: The time the job ended
+  returned: always
+  type: str
+  sample: "2016-11-16 10:38:25.595612"
+delta:
+  description: The time elapsed to perform all operations
+  returned: always
+  type: str
+  sample: "0:00:10.469466"
+"""
+import re
+
+from functools import partial
+
+from ansible.module_utils.local import LocalAnsibleModule
+from ansible.module_utils.eos import get_config, load_config
+from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
+
+def validate_privilege(value, module):
+    if not 1 <= value <= 15:
+        module.fail_json(msg='privilege must be between 1 and 15, got %s' % value)
+
+def map_obj_to_commands(updates, module):
+    commands = list()
+    state = module.params['state']
+    update_password = module.params['update_password']
+
+    for update in updates:
+        want, have = update
+
+        needs_update = lambda x: want.get(x) and (want.get(x) != have.get(x))
+        add = lambda x: commands.append('username %s %s' % (want['username'], x))
+
+        if want['state'] == 'absent':
+            commands.append('no username %s' % want['username'])
+            continue
+
+        if needs_update('role'):
+            add('role %s' % want['role'])
+
+        if needs_update('privilege'):
+            add('privilege %s' % want['privilege'])
+
+        if needs_update('password'):
+            if update_password == 'always' or not have:
+                add('secret %s' % want['password'])
+
+        if needs_update('sshkey'):
+            add('sshkey %s' % want['sshkey'])
+
+        if needs_update('nopassword'):
+            if want['nopassword']:
+                add('nopassword')
+            else:
+                add('no username %s nopassword' % want['username'])
+
+    return commands
+
+def parse_role(data):
+    match = re.search(r'role (\S+)', data, re.M)
+    if match:
+        return match.group(1)
+
+def parse_sshkey(data):
+    match = re.search(r'sshkey (.+)$', data, re.M)
+    if match:
+        return match.group(1)
+
+def parse_privilege(data):
+    match = re.search(r'privilege (\S+)', data, re.M)
+    if match:
+        return int(match.group(1))
+
+def map_config_to_obj(module):
+    data = get_config(module, flags=['section username'])
+
+    match = re.findall(r'^username (\S+)', data, re.M)
+    if not match:
+        return list()
+
+    instances = list()
+
+    for user in set(match):
+        regex = r'username %s .+$' % user
+        cfg = re.findall(r'username %s .+$' % user, data, re.M)
+        cfg = '\n'.join(cfg)
+        obj = {
+            'username': user,
+            'state': 'present',
+            'nopassword': 'nopassword' in cfg,
+            'password': None,
+            'sshkey': parse_sshkey(cfg),
+            'privilege': parse_privilege(cfg),
+            'role': parse_role(cfg)
+        }
+        instances.append(obj)
+
+    return instances
+
+def get_param_value(key, item, module):
+    # if key doesn't exist in the item, get it from module.params
+    if not item.get(key):
+        value = module.params[key]
+
+    # if key does exist, do a type check on it to validate it
+    else:
+        value_type = module.argument_spec[key].get('type', 'str')
+        type_checker = module._CHECK_ARGUMENT_TYPES_DISPATCHER[value_type]
+        type_checker(item[key])
+        value = item[key]
+
+    # validate the param value (if validator func exists)
+    validator = globals().get('validate_%s' % key)
+    if all((value, validator)):
+        validator(value, module)
+
+    return value
+
+def map_params_to_obj(module):
+    users = module.params['users']
+    if not users:
+        if not module.params['username'] and module.params['purge']:
+            return list()
+        elif not module.params['username']:
+            module.fail_json(msg='username is required')
+        else:
+            collection = [{'username': module.params['username']}]
+    else:
+        collection = list()
+        for item in users:
+            if not isinstance(item, dict):
+                collection.append({'username': item})
+            elif 'username' not in item:
+                module.fail_json(msg='username is required')
+            else:
+                collection.append(item)
+
+    objects = list()
+
+    for item in collection:
+        get_value = partial(get_param_value, item=item, module=module)
+        item['password'] = get_value('password')
+        item['nopassword'] = get_value('nopassword')
+        item['privilege'] = get_value('privilege')
+        item['role'] = get_value('role')
+        item['sshkey'] = get_value('sshkey')
+        item['state'] = get_value('state')
+        objects.append(item)
+
+    return objects
+
+def update_objects(want, have):
+    updates = list()
+    for entry in want:
+        item = next((i for i in have if i['username'] == entry['username']), None)
+        if all((item is None, entry['state'] == 'present')):
+            updates.append((entry, {}))
+        elif item:
+            for key, value in iteritems(entry):
+                if value and value != item[key]:
+                    updates.append((entry, item))
+    return updates
+
+def main():
+    """ main entry point for module execution
+    """
+    argument_spec = dict(
+        users=dict(type='list', no_log=True),
+        username=dict(),
+
+        password=dict(no_log=True),
+        nopassword=dict(type='bool'),
+        update_password=dict(default='always', choices=['on_create', 'always']),
+
+        privilege=dict(type='int'),
+        role=dict(),
+
+        sshkey=dict(),
+
+        purge=dict(type='bool', default=False),
+        state=dict(default='present', choices=['present', 'absent'])
+    )
+
+    mutually_exclusive = [('username', 'users')]
+
+    module = LocalAnsibleModule(argument_spec=argument_spec,
+                                mutually_exclusive=mutually_exclusive,
+                                supports_check_mode=True)
+
+    result = {'changed': False}
+
+    want = map_params_to_obj(module)
+    have = map_config_to_obj(module)
+
+    commands = map_obj_to_commands(update_objects(want, have), module)
+
+    if module.params['purge']:
+        want_users = [x['username'] for x in want]
+        have_users = [x['username'] for x in have]
+        for item in set(have_users).difference(want_users):
+            if item != 'admin':
+                commands.append('no username %s' % item)
+
+    result['commands'] = commands
+
+    # the eos cli prevents this by rule so capture it and display
+    # a nice failure message
+    if 'no username admin' in commands:
+        module.fail_json(msg='cannot delete the `admin` account')
+
+    if commands:
+        commit = not module.check_mode
+        response = load_config(module, commands, commit=commit)
+        if response.get('diff') and module._diff:
+            result['diff'] = {'prepared': response.get('diff')}
+        result['session_name'] = response.get('session')
+        result['changed'] = True
+
+    module.exit_json(**result)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/test/units/modules/network/eos/fixtures/eos_user_config.cfg b/test/units/modules/network/eos/fixtures/eos_user_config.cfg
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+++ b/test/units/modules/network/eos/fixtures/eos_user_config.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+username admin role network-admin secret 5 $1$mdQIUxjg$3t3lzBpfKfITKvFm1uEIY.
+username ansible role network-admin secret 5 $1$3yWSXiIi$VdzV59ChiurrNdGxlDeAW/
diff --git a/test/units/modules/network/eos/test_eos_user.py b/test/units/modules/network/eos/test_eos_user.py
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index 0000000000..583a8c31e3
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+++ b/test/units/modules/network/eos/test_eos_user.py
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Make coding more python3-ish
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import os
+import json
+
+from ansible.compat.tests import unittest
+from ansible.compat.tests.mock import patch, MagicMock
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleModuleExit
+from ansible.modules.network.eos import eos_user
+from ansible.module_utils import basic
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+
+
+def set_module_args(args):
+    args = json.dumps({'ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS': args})
+    basic._ANSIBLE_ARGS = to_bytes(args)
+
+fixture_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'fixtures')
+fixture_data = {}
+
+def load_fixture(name):
+    path = os.path.join(fixture_path, name)
+
+    if path in fixture_data:
+        return fixture_data[path]
+
+    with open(path) as f:
+        data = f.read()
+
+    try:
+        data = json.loads(data)
+    except:
+        pass
+
+    fixture_data[path] = data
+    return data
+
+
+class TestEosUserModule(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.mock_get_config = patch('ansible.modules.network.eos.eos_user.get_config')
+        self.get_config = self.mock_get_config.start()
+
+        self.mock_load_config = patch('ansible.modules.network.eos.eos_user.load_config')
+        self.load_config = self.mock_load_config.start()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        self.mock_get_config.stop()
+        self.mock_load_config.stop()
+
+    def execute_module(self, failed=False, changed=False, commands=None, sort=True):
+
+        self.get_config.return_value = load_fixture('eos_user_config.cfg')
+        self.load_config.return_value = dict(diff=None, session='session')
+
+        with self.assertRaises(AnsibleModuleExit) as exc:
+            eos_user.main()
+
+        result = exc.exception.result
+
+        if failed:
+            self.assertTrue(result['failed'], result)
+        else:
+            self.assertEqual(result['changed'], changed, result)
+
+        if commands:
+            if sort:
+                self.assertEqual(sorted(commands), sorted(result['commands']), result['commands'])
+            else:
+                self.assertEqual(commands, result['commands'])
+
+        return result
+
+    def test_eos_user_create(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(username='test', nopassword=True))
+        commands = ['username test nopassword']
+        self.execute_module(changed=True, commands=commands)
+
+    def test_eos_user_delete(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(username='ansible', state='absent'))
+        commands = ['no username ansible']
+        self.execute_module(changed=True, commands=commands)
+
+    def test_eos_user_password(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(username='ansible', password='test'))
+        commands = ['username ansible secret ********']
+        self.execute_module(changed=True, commands=commands)
+
+    def test_eos_user_privilege(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(username='ansible', privilege=15))
+        commands = ['username ansible privilege 15']
+        self.execute_module(changed=True, commands=commands)
+
+    def test_eos_user_privilege_invalid(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(username='ansible', privilege=25))
+        self.execute_module(failed=True)
+
+    def test_eos_user_purge(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(purge=True))
+        commands = ['no username ansible']
+        self.execute_module(changed=True, commands=commands)
+
+    def test_eos_user_role(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(username='ansible', role='test'))
+        commands = ['username ansible role test']
+        self.execute_module(changed=True, commands=commands)
+
+    def test_eos_user_sshkey(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(username='ansible', sshkey='test'))
+        commands = ['username ansible sshkey test']
+        self.execute_module(changed=True, commands=commands)
+
+    def test_eos_user_update_password_changed(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(username='test', password='test', update_password='on_create'))
+        commands = ['username ******** secret ********']
+        self.execute_module(changed=True, commands=commands)
+
+    def test_eos_user_update_password_on_create_ok(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(username='ansible', password='test', update_password='on_create'))
+        commands = []
+        self.execute_module(commands=commands)
+
+    def test_eos_user_update_password_always(self):
+        set_module_args(dict(username='ansible', password='test', update_password='always'))
+        commands = ['username ansible secret ********']
+        self.execute_module(changed=True, commands=commands)
+
+