Ansible Quick Start Guide

Use case 2 – creating a new user with all its settings

This use case allows you to automate the addition of a new user to your system. Basically, we are going to create a new user in all Linux hosts, with the password already set up. We are also going to create an SSH key so that it can be accessed remotely and add some sudo configurations for easier management. This is implemented in the following code:

---- name: Create a dedicated remote management user   hosts: Linux  become: yes  gather_facts: yes  tasks:    - name: Create a now basic user      user:          name: 'ansuser'          password:    $6$C2rcmXJPhMAxLLEM$N.XOWkuukX7Rms7QlvclhWIOz6.MoQd/   jekgWRgDaDH5oU2OexNtRYPTWwQ2lcFRYYevM83wIqrK76sgnVqOX.          # A hash for generic password.         append: yes         groups: sudo shell: ...