While many environments have some sort of central authentication, there’s still use cases for managing users on servers outside of that. This lab will help drive home managing users and groups with Ansible.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Ensure the ‘backups’ Group Exists with the Correct GID on All Servers
This section of your playbook should look something like this:
--- - name: verify group exists hosts: all become: yes tasks: - group: gid: 12310 name: backups state: present- Remove the ‘old_backup’ User on All Servers
You can add this section to the existing playbook:
- user: name: old_backup state: absent- Create the ‘new_backup’ User on All Servers with the Required Settings
You can add this section to your existing playbook:
- user: name: new_backup uid: 12427 shell: /bin/false password_lock: yes groups: backups- Create the New Group and Add the ‘new_backup’ User
Your complete playbook should look similar to the following:
--- - name: verify group exists hosts: all become: yes tasks: - group: gid: 12310 name: backups state: present - group: gid: 12311 name: new_backups state: present - user: name: old_backup state: absent - user: name: new_backup uid: 12427 shell: /bin/false password_lock: yes groups: backups, new_backups
