theforeman.foreman.usergroup – Manage User Groups

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 3.0.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

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

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

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Create, update, and delete user groups

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 users in this group are administrators
name
string / required
Name of the group
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 group
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
updated_name
string
New user group name. When this parameter is set, the module will not be idempotent.
usergroups
list / elements=string
List of other groups assigned to the group
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.
users
list / elements=string
List of users assigned to the group
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 group
  theforeman.foreman.usergroup:
    name: test
    admin: no
    roles:
      - Manager
    users:
      - myuser1
      - myuser2
    usergroups:
      - mynestedgroup
    state: present

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.
 
usergroups
list / elements=dictionary
success
List of usergroups.


Authors

  • Baptiste Agasse (@bagasse)