Ansible Quick Start Guide

The user management module

As suggested by its name, this module is for user management on a Linux system. As an example, we will make a playbook that creates a system user named install to be used later to manage the remote machine. The playbook script is as follows : 

---- name: Linux Module running  hosts: servers  become: yes  gather_facts: false  tasks:    - name: create a system user to be used by Ansible      user:        name: install        state: present        shell: /bin/bash        group: sudo        system: yes        hidden: yes        ssh_key_file: .ssh/id_rsa        expires: -1

You can always add -v or -vvv if you want extra output when running a playbook. The following screenshot shows the output of a normal run and one with the -v option:

The same module can also be used to remove the ...