group – Add or remove groups

Synopsis

• Manage presence of groups on a host.
• For Windows targets, use the win_group module instead.

Requirements

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

• groupadd
• groupdel
• groupmod

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
gid integer		Optional GID to set for the group.
local boolean added in 2.6	Choices: no ← yes	Forces the use of "local" command alternatives on platforms that implement it. This is useful in environments that use centralized authentication when you want to manipulate the local groups. (e.g. it uses lgroupadd instead of groupadd). This requires that these commands exist on the targeted host, otherwise it will be a fatal error.
name string / required		Name of the group to manage.
non_unique boolean added in 2.8	Choices: no ← yes	This option allows to change the group ID to a non-unique value. Requires gid. Not supported on macOS or BusyBox distributions.
state string	Choices: absent present ←	Whether the group should be present or not on the remote host.
system boolean	Choices: no ← yes	If yes, indicates that the group created is a system group.

See Also

See also

user – Manage user accounts

The official documentation on the user module.

win_group – Add and remove local groups

The official documentation on the win_group module.

Examples

- name: Ensure group "somegroup" exists
  group:
    name: somegroup
    state: present

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Stephen Fromm (@sfromm)

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