theforeman.foreman.user – Manage Users

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 1.5.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install theforeman.foreman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.user.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

• Create, update, and delete users

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
admin boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Whether or not the user is an administrator
auth_source string		Authentication source where the user exists
default_location string		The location that the user uses by default
default_organization string		The organizxation that the user uses by default
description string		Description of the user
firstname string		First name of the user
lastname string		Last name of the user
locale string	Choices: ca de en en_GB es fr gl it ja ko nl_NL pl pt_BR ru sv_SE zh_CN zh_TW	The language locale for the user
locations list / elements=string		List of locations the entity should be assigned to
login string / required		Name of the user aliases: name
mail string		Email address of the user Required when creating a new user
organizations list / elements=string		List of organizations the entity should be assigned to
password string / required		Password of the user accessing the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_PASSWORD will be used instead.
roles list / elements=string		List of roles assigned to the user
server_url string / required		URL of the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_SERVER_URL will be used instead.
state string	Choices: present ← absent	State of the entity
timezone string	Choices: International Date Line West American Samoa Midway Island Hawaii Alaska Pacific Time (US & Canada) Tijuana Arizona Chihuahua Mazatlan Mountain Time (US & Canada) Central America Central Time (US & Canada) Guadalajara Mexico City Monterrey Saskatchewan Bogota Eastern Time (US & Canada) Indiana (East) Lima Quito Atlantic Time (Canada) Caracas Georgetown La Paz Puerto Rico Santiago Newfoundland Brasilia Buenos Aires Greenland Montevideo Mid-Atlantic Azores Cape Verde Is. Dublin Edinburgh Lisbon London Monrovia UTC Amsterdam Belgrade Berlin Bern Bratislava Brussels Budapest Casablanca Copenhagen Ljubljana Madrid Paris Prague Rome Sarajevo Skopje Stockholm Vienna Warsaw West Central Africa Zagreb Zurich Athens Bucharest Cairo Harare Helsinki Jerusalem Kaliningrad Kyiv Pretoria Riga Sofia Tallinn Vilnius Baghdad Istanbul Kuwait Minsk Moscow Nairobi Riyadh St. Petersburg Tehran Abu Dhabi Baku Muscat Samara Tbilisi Volgograd Yerevan Kabul Ekaterinburg Islamabad Karachi Tashkent Chennai Kolkata Mumbai New Delhi Sri Jayawardenepura Kathmandu Almaty Astana Dhaka Urumqi Rangoon Bangkok Hanoi Jakarta Krasnoyarsk Novosibirsk Beijing Chongqing Hong Kong Irkutsk Kuala Lumpur Perth Singapore Taipei Ulaanbaatar Osaka Sapporo Seoul Tokyo Yakutsk Adelaide Darwin Brisbane Canberra Guam Hobart Melbourne Port Moresby Sydney Vladivostok Magadan New Caledonia Solomon Is. Srednekolymsk Auckland Fiji Kamchatka Marshall Is. Wellington Chatham Is. Nuku'alofa Samoa Tokelau Is.	Timezone for the user If blank it will use the browser timezone.
user_password string		Password for the user
username string / required		Username accessing the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_USERNAME will be used instead.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes ←	Whether or not to verify the TLS certificates of the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Examples

- name: Create a user
  theforeman.foreman.user:
    name: test
    firstname: Test
    lastname: Userson
    mail: test.userson@example.com
    description: Dr. Test Userson
    admin: no
    user_password: s3cret
    default_location: Test Location
    default_organization: Test Organization
    auth_source: Internal
    timezone: Stockholm
    locale: sv_SE
    roles:
      - Manager
    locations:
      - Test Location
    organizations:
      - Test Organization
    state: present

- name: Update a user
  theforeman.foreman.user:
    name: test
    firstname: Tester
    state: present

- name: Change password
  theforeman.foreman.user:
    name: test
    user_password: newp@ss

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key		Returned	Description
entity dictionary		success	Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.
	users list / elements=dictionary	success	List of users.

Authors

• Christoffer Reijer (@ephracis) Basalt AB