junos_user with purge option enabled fails

[ganeshrn]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

junos_user

ANSIBLE VERSION

2.3

CONFIGURATION

OS / ENVIRONMENT

SUMMARY

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

      junos_user:
        name: user
        purge: yes

EXPECTED RESULTS

It should delete all the login users configured on the device except the user mentioned in playbook ie. logged-in user.

ACTUAL RESULTS

Fails with error

fatal: [vsrx01]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "err": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory",
    "failed": true,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "full_name": null,
            "host": null,
            "name": "ansible",
            "password": null,
            "port": null,
            "provider": {
                "host": "vsrx",
                "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
                "port": null,
                "ssh_keyfile": null,
                "timeout": null,
                "transport": null,
                "username": "ansible"
            },
            "purge": true,
            "role": "unauthorized",
            "ssh_keyfile": null,
            "sshkey": null,
            "state": "present",
            "timeout": 10,
            "transport": null,
            "username": null,
            "users": null
        }
    },
    "msg": "unable to connect to socket"
}

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