ansible-module-userdetect

> USERDETECT    (/etc/ansible/library/userdetect.py)

        Detect the existence of user(s) on UNIX operation systems.
        This module only reports about the existence of users. It
        doesn’t change any data. Use the register key to catch the
        returned informatins about the users.

OPTIONS (= is mandatory):

- fallback
        User to look for if the main user can’t be detected.
        default: null

- user
        The name of the user or a list of users. Users can be
        specified as a comma separted list (user1,user2) or as a YAML
        list.
        default: null

AUTHOR: Josef Friedrich (@Josef-Friedrich)

METADATA:
  metadata_version: '0.1'
  status:
  - preview
  supported_by: community

EXAMPLES:

- name: Detect user “jf”
  userdetect: user=jf
  register: user

- name: Detect fallback user “root”.
  userdetect: user=lol
              fallback=root
  register: user

- name: Detect users as a list
  userdetect:
    user:
      - jf
      - root
  register: user

- name: Detect users as a comma separated list
  userdetect: user=jf,root
  register: user

RETURN VALUES:
- all
        A list of all users containing a dictionary with the keys
        “username”, “exists”, “uid”, “gid”, “home”, “shell”.
        returned: In multi mode
        type: list

- existent
        A list of all existing users containing a dictionary with the
        keys “username”, “exists”, “uid”, “gid”, “home”, “shell”.
        returned: In multi mode
        type: list

- exists
        Indicates if the user exists
        returned: always
        sample: true
        type: boolean

- fallback
        Indicates if the user is a the fallback user or not.
        returned: If the user exists
        sample: true
        type: boolean

- gid
        The group ID
        returned: If the user exists
        sample: 1000
        type: integer

- home
        The path of the home folder
        returned: If the user exists
        sample: /home/jf
        type: string

- non_existent
        A list of all non existing users containing a dictionary with
        the keys “username”, “exists”, “uid”, “gid”, “home”, “shell”.
        returned: In multi mode
        type: list

- shell
        The absoltue path of the shell the user uses.
        returned: If the user exists
        sample: /bin/bash
        type: string

- uid
        The user ID
        returned: If the user exists
        sample: 1000
        type: integer

- username
        The name of the user
        returned: always
        sample: root
        type: string

Development

Test functionality

/usr/local/src/ansible/hacking/test-module -m userdetect.py -a

Test documentation

source /usr/local/src/ansible/hacking/env-setup
/usr/local/src/ansible/test/sanity/validate-modules/validate-modules --arg-spec --warnings userdetect.py

Generate documentation

ansible-doc -M . userdetect