ansible-users
Create user accounts according to a YAML manifest.
Controls:
- username and UID
- groupname and GID
- homedir creation
- GECOS field (typically full user name)
- shell
- SSH public key deployment to
.ssh/authorized_keys - account expiration
- memory, swap and CPU allocation limits via user slices
Check out corvus-migratorius/ansible-disk-quotas for controlling non-root filesystem quotas.
Requirements
Target node:
- systemd
- openssh
Controller:
passlib(for working with user passwords)
Role Variables
manifest_path: a YAML file containing user definitions (see molecule/default/users.yml for an example)
users: a list of objects mirroring the YAML structure expected by manifest_path; takes precedence over it
common_memory_max: e.g. "500M", optional
common_swap_max: e.g. "2G", optional
common_cpu_quota: e.g. "100%", optional
Dependencies
Example Playbook
- Configuring users in a YAML manifest: converge.yml
- Configuring user list as a variable: converge.yml
License
BSD