community.general.vertica_user – Adds or removes Vertica database users and assigns roles.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.6).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.vertica_user.

Synopsis

  • Adds or removes Vertica database user and, optionally, assigns roles.

  • A user will not be removed until all the dependencies have been dropped.

  • In such a situation, if the module tries to remove the user it will fail and only remove roles granted to the user.

Requirements

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

  • unixODBC

  • pyodbc

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
cluster
string
Default:
"localhost"
Name of the Vertica cluster.
db
string
Name of the Vertica database.
expired
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Sets the user's password expiration.
ldap
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Set to true if users are authenticated via LDAP.
The user will be created with password expired and set to $ldap$.
login_password
string
The password used to authenticate with.
login_user
string
Default:
"dbadmin"
The username used to authenticate with.
name
string / required
Name of the user to add or remove.
password
string
The user's password encrypted by the MD5 algorithm.
The password must be generated with the format "md5" + md5[password + username], resulting in a total of 35 characters. An easy way to do this is by querying the Vertica database with select 'md5'||md5('<user_password><user_name>').
port
string
Default:
5433
Vertica cluster port to connect to.
profile
string
Sets the user's profile.
resource_pool
string
Sets the user's resource pool.
roles
string
Comma separated list of roles to assign to the user.

aliases: role
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
  • locked
Whether to create present, drop absent or lock locked a user.

Notes

Note

  • The default authentication assumes that you are either logging in as or sudo’ing to the dbadmin account on the host.

  • This module uses pyodbc, a Python ODBC database adapter. You must ensure that unixODBC and pyodbc is installed on the host and properly configured.

  • Configuring unixODBC for Vertica requires Driver = /opt/vertica/lib64/libverticaodbc.so to be added to the Vertica section of either /etc/odbcinst.ini or $HOME/.odbcinst.ini and both ErrorMessagesPath = /opt/vertica/lib64 and DriverManagerEncoding = UTF-16 to be added to the Driver section of either /etc/vertica.ini or $HOME/.vertica.ini.

Examples

- name: Creating a new vertica user with password
  community.general.vertica_user: name=user_name password=md5<encrypted_password> db=db_name state=present

- name: Creating a new vertica user authenticated via ldap with roles assigned
  community.general.vertica_user:
    name=user_name
    ldap=true
    db=db_name
    roles=schema_name_ro
    state=present

Authors

  • Dariusz Owczarek (@dareko)