adduser/addgroup commands to core user module

[tony-caffe]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

User Module, Ansible core module

ANSIBLE VERSION

Ansible 2.3.0.0

CONFIGURATION

Ad-hoc commands using user module

OS / ENVIRONMENT

SUMMARY

When trying to manage users in Alpine Linux, specifically but can affect other flavors, the user module defaults only to useradd and groupadd commands. These Systems do not have those commands, only adduser/addgroup.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

This would allow us to use the user core module or perhaps a different module for managing users.

- name: Alpine | Add user
  command: "adduser -D {{ adduser_user_name }} creates=/home/{{ adduser_user_name }}"
  become: yes
  ignore_errors: true
  when: ansible_os_family == "Alpine"

EXPECTED RESULTS

To automatically source various tools to manage users instead of one specific tool.

ACTUAL RESULTS

"msg": "Failed to find required executable useradd in paths: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin"

This would be a very nice feature to add for our infrastructure. We use Ansible on a Global scale and Alpine allows us to have a slimmed down OS with enhanced security for remote services.

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[samdoran]

Related to #23944.

We most likely need to add a class for Alpine Linux.

[tony-caffe]

@samdoran Any update to this or the other issue related to it? We use Ansible to manage systems all across the world but they are all Alpine/busybox servers and having this would give more reliability and other features in one Task definition.

Having the deluser command used may be something to note as well.

Thank you!

[samdoran]

@tony-caffe I have a local branch where I've been building this out. I haven't gotten in fully finished yet, though.

[tony-caffe]

@samdoran Will this be shipped in Ansible 2.8 then? I am so happy to see some movement here. You do not know how much this will help our world wide Organization on thousands of Alpine Linux servers with BusyBox.

[tony-caffe]

Any chance we will get the group variant for busybox supported as well?
#29808

[samdoran]

@tony-caffe Please try #54689 for group support of BusyBox.