Ansible User Modules by Raj Gupta

User Modules:- To create the user

[ansible@ip-172-31-95-179 ~]$ vi user.yml
[ansible@ip-172-31-95-179 ~]$ cat user.yml
-
  name: "this is our first playbook."
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    -
      name: "create a dummy file on websever1"
      user: name="mytestuser" state=present password="raj123456"

[ansible@ip-172-31-80-19 ~]$ ansible-playbook user.yml -i inventory.txt

now run the below command on client to check the created user

[root@ip-172-31-85-190 ~]# cd /home

[root@ip-172-31-85-190 home]# ls

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To delete the user on client but not remove home directory 

[ansible@ip-172-31-80-19 ~]$ cat user.yml

-

  name: "this is our first playbook."

  hosts: all

  tasks:

    -

      name: "create a dummy file on websever1"

      user: name="mytestuser" state=absent

To check user are deleted on client 

[root@ip-172-31-85-190 home]# cat /etc/passwd

To delete the user on client also remove the home directory of user

[ansible@ip-172-31-80-19 ~]$ cat user.yml

-

  name: "this is our first playbook."

  hosts: all

  tasks:

    -

      name: "create a dummy file on websever1"

      user: name="mytestuser" state=absent remove=yes

[ansible@ip-172-31-80-19 ~]$