theforeman.foreman.user module – Manage Users

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 4.2.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install theforeman.foreman. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.user.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Create, update, and delete users

Aliases: foreman_user

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

admin

boolean

Whether or not the user is an administrator

Choices:

  • false

  • true

auth_source

string

Authentication source where the user exists

default_location

string

The location that the user uses by default

default_organization

string

The organizxation that the user uses by default

description

string

Description of the user

firstname

string

First name of the user

lastname

string

Last name of the user

locale

string

The language locale for the user

Choices:

  • "ca"

  • "de"

  • "en"

  • "en_GB"

  • "es"

  • "fr"

  • "gl"

  • "it"

  • "ja"

  • "ko"

  • "nl_NL"

  • "pl"

  • "pt_BR"

  • "ru"

  • "sv_SE"

  • "zh_CN"

  • "zh_TW"

locations

list / elements=string

List of locations the entity should be assigned to

login

aliases: name

string / required

Name of the user

mail

string

Email address of the user

Required when creating a new user

organizations

list / elements=string

List of organizations the entity should be assigned to

password

string / required

Password of the user accessing the Foreman server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_PASSWORD will be used instead.

roles

list / elements=string

List of roles assigned to the user

server_url

string / required

URL of the Foreman server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_SERVER_URL will be used instead.

state

string

State of the entity

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

timezone

string

Timezone for the user

If blank it will use the browser timezone.

Choices:

  • "International Date Line West"

  • "American Samoa"

  • "Midway Island"

  • "Hawaii"

  • "Alaska"

  • "Pacific Time (US & Canada)"

  • "Tijuana"

  • "Arizona"

  • "Chihuahua"

  • "Mazatlan"

  • "Mountain Time (US & Canada)"

  • "Central America"

  • "Central Time (US & Canada)"

  • "Guadalajara"

  • "Mexico City"

  • "Monterrey"

  • "Saskatchewan"

  • "Bogota"

  • "Eastern Time (US & Canada)"

  • "Indiana (East)"

  • "Lima"

  • "Quito"

  • "Atlantic Time (Canada)"

  • "Caracas"

  • "Georgetown"

  • "La Paz"

  • "Puerto Rico"

  • "Santiago"

  • "Newfoundland"

  • "Brasilia"

  • "Buenos Aires"

  • "Greenland"

  • "Montevideo"

  • "Mid-Atlantic"

  • "Azores"

  • "Cape Verde Is."

  • "Dublin"

  • "Edinburgh"

  • "Lisbon"

  • "London"

  • "Monrovia"

  • "UTC"

  • "Amsterdam"

  • "Belgrade"

  • "Berlin"

  • "Bern"

  • "Bratislava"

  • "Brussels"

  • "Budapest"

  • "Casablanca"

  • "Copenhagen"

  • "Ljubljana"

  • "Madrid"

  • "Paris"

  • "Prague"

  • "Rome"

  • "Sarajevo"

  • "Skopje"

  • "Stockholm"

  • "Vienna"

  • "Warsaw"

  • "West Central Africa"

  • "Zagreb"

  • "Zurich"

  • "Athens"

  • "Bucharest"

  • "Cairo"

  • "Harare"

  • "Helsinki"

  • "Jerusalem"

  • "Kaliningrad"

  • "Kyiv"

  • "Pretoria"

  • "Riga"

  • "Sofia"

  • "Tallinn"

  • "Vilnius"

  • "Baghdad"

  • "Istanbul"

  • "Kuwait"

  • "Minsk"

  • "Moscow"

  • "Nairobi"

  • "Riyadh"

  • "St. Petersburg"

  • "Tehran"

  • "Abu Dhabi"

  • "Baku"

  • "Muscat"

  • "Samara"

  • "Tbilisi"

  • "Volgograd"

  • "Yerevan"

  • "Kabul"

  • "Ekaterinburg"

  • "Islamabad"

  • "Karachi"

  • "Tashkent"

  • "Chennai"

  • "Kolkata"

  • "Mumbai"

  • "New Delhi"

  • "Sri Jayawardenepura"

  • "Kathmandu"

  • "Almaty"

  • "Astana"

  • "Dhaka"

  • "Urumqi"

  • "Rangoon"

  • "Bangkok"

  • "Hanoi"

  • "Jakarta"

  • "Krasnoyarsk"

  • "Novosibirsk"

  • "Beijing"

  • "Chongqing"

  • "Hong Kong"

  • "Irkutsk"

  • "Kuala Lumpur"

  • "Perth"

  • "Singapore"

  • "Taipei"

  • "Ulaanbaatar"

  • "Osaka"

  • "Sapporo"

  • "Seoul"

  • "Tokyo"

  • "Yakutsk"

  • "Adelaide"

  • "Darwin"

  • "Brisbane"

  • "Canberra"

  • "Guam"

  • "Hobart"

  • "Melbourne"

  • "Port Moresby"

  • "Sydney"

  • "Vladivostok"

  • "Magadan"

  • "New Caledonia"

  • "Solomon Is."

  • "Srednekolymsk"

  • "Auckland"

  • "Fiji"

  • "Kamchatka"

  • "Marshall Is."

  • "Wellington"

  • "Chatham Is."

  • "Nuku'alofa"

  • "Samoa"

  • "Tokelau Is."

user_password

string

Password for the user.

When this parameter is set, the module will not be idempotent.

username

string / required

Username accessing the Foreman server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_USERNAME will be used instead.

validate_certs

boolean

Whether or not to verify the TLS certificates of the Foreman server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying the entity

diff_mode

Support: full

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode

Examples

- name: Create a user
  theforeman.foreman.user:
    name: test
    firstname: Test
    lastname: Userson
    mail: [email protected]
    description: Dr. Test Userson
    admin: false
    user_password: s3cret
    default_location: Test Location
    default_organization: Test Organization
    auth_source: Internal
    timezone: Stockholm
    locale: sv_SE
    roles:
      - Manager
    locations:
      - Test Location
    organizations:
      - Test Organization
    state: present

- name: Update a user
  theforeman.foreman.user:
    name: test
    firstname: Tester
    state: present

- name: Change password
  theforeman.foreman.user:
    name: test
    user_password: newp@ss

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

entity

dictionary

Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.

Returned: success

users

list / elements=dictionary

List of users.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Christoffer Reijer (@ephracis) Basalt AB