Ansible Role: Create User

This role adds a new superuser to a remote system. This user can use sudo, can login via SSH using a key pair and has a custom bash environment.

NOTE: this role is intented to run as root or via another sudo user. Personally, I only use this role on new servers.

Requirements

No specific requirements for this role.

Role Variables

The variables in this role contain the following information:

• Username/Password + Public SSH key
• Definition for the PATH environment variable

Here is an example of variables:

user: MyUser
password: MyPassword
public_key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
path_env: PATH="$PATH:/home/bin"

In the above example, the public SSH key provided is the one currently used by the user executing the Ansible playbook. If this does not suit your needs, feel free to modify this option.

These variables should be defined in either group_vars and host_vars and must be encrypted using ansible-vault.

Dependencies

No dependencies from other roles required.

Example Playbook

Here is a simple example playbook to use this role:

hosts: all
user: root
roles:
  - { role: user, tags: [ 'user' ] }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

My name is Gaétan. You can follow me on Twitter

Website: ICT Pour Tous