os_ansible_user

os_ansible_user Ansible Role

Ansible role for creating an ansible user for your managed systems

Prerequisites

• Create your Ansible user in your Ansible command host
• Generate a key via ssh-keygen

• Note: Highly recommended that you do this manually and not be part of the automation for security reasons

• A userid that has sudo privileges (or direct root) to create the Ansible user
  • Provide the user in your vars

    ansible_user: admin_user
    ansible_password: your_password
    ansible_sudo_pass: your_password

Overview

Variables

Variable	Info	Default	Required
os_ansible_user_userid	Ansible user to be created		yes
os_ansible_user_password	Password of the Ansible user to be created		yes
os_ansible_user_uid	Ansible user Unix user id		yes
os_ansible_user_gid	Ansible user Unix group id		yes
os_ansible_user_keyfile	Key filename found in ~./ssh/	"id_ecdsa.pub"	yes
os_ansible_user_force_recreate	Forcefully recreate user by deleting existing user first	"yes"	no

Input and Execution

• Sample execution:

  ansible-playbook --connection=local --limit localhost -i "localhost," os-create-ansible-user.yml"

• Sample playbook

  ---
  - hosts: all
    become: true
    vars:
      ansible_user: admin_user
      ansible_password: your_password
      ansible_sudo_pass: your_password
      os_ansible_user_userid: ansadm
      os_ansible_user_password: 'my_password'
      os_ansible_user_uid: 1010
      os_ansible_user_gid: 1010
      os_ansible_user_keyfile: id_ecdsa.pub
    roles:
      - { role: community.sap_operations.os_ansible_user }