bashlinux_users

This role creates a group and the users belonging to the same group, when the list of users is provided.

Role Variables

The settable variables for this role are:

group_name: ""          # Group Name. If not provided playbook nothing will be done and a message saying so will be displayed
                        # (mandatory)
group_id: ""            # Group ID. If not provided, next gid available on system will be used
                        # Desired if the same "gid" is needed across systems
                        # (default empty)
group_sudo: false       # Flag granting sudo privileges to members of this group
                        # (default false)
group_users: ""         # Name of the variable holding the list of users. If not provided, no users will be created
                        # (default empty)

Ideally, one might need to either, enable the group_sudo flag, pass the list of users through group_users, or both, otherwise the group module should suffice the group creation.

Example Playbook

Create a group and enable sudo for its members

---
- hosts: servers
  vars:
    group_name: privileged_group_name
    group_sudo: true
  roles:
    - bashlinux_users

Create a non-privileged group, with a consistent gid across all servers and provide a list of users, with consistent gid. The public ssh key will be set if provided.

---
- hosts: servers
  vars:
    group_name: nonprivileged_group_name
    group_id: "{{ nonprivileged_group_name.gid }}"
    group_users: "{{ nonprivileged_group_name.users }}"
  roles:
    - bashlinux_users

where the list of users is the form of:

---
nonprivileged_group_name:
  gid: 3001
  users:
    - name: user_alpha
      uid: 2001
      ssh_key: "ssh-rsa AAABBBCCCA1....== [email protected]"
    - name: user_beta
      uid: 2002
      ssh_key: "ssh-rsa AAABBBCCCB2....== [email protected]"
  roles:
    - bashlinux_users

License

LGPL-3.0-or-later