rabbitmq_user – Manage RabbitMQ users

Synopsis

• Add or remove users to RabbitMQ and assign permissions

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
configure_priv -	Default: "^$"	Regular expression to restrict configure actions on a resource for the specified vhost. By default all actions are restricted. This option will be ignored when permissions option is used.
force boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Deletes and recreates the user.
node -	Default: "rabbit"	erlang node name of the rabbit we wish to configure
password -		Password of user to add. To change the password of an existing user, you must also specify update_password=always.
permissions -	Default: []	a list of dicts, each dict contains vhost, configure_priv, write_priv, and read_priv, and represents a permission rule for that vhost. This option should be preferable when you care about all permissions of the user. You should use vhost, configure_priv, write_priv, and read_priv options instead if you care about permissions for just some vhosts.
read_priv -	Default: "^$"	Regular expression to restrict configure actions on a resource for the specified vhost. By default all actions are restricted. This option will be ignored when permissions option is used.
state -	Choices: present ← absent	Specify if user is to be added or removed
tags -		User tags specified as comma delimited
update_password - added in 2.6	Choices: on_create ← always	on_create will only set the password for newly created users. always will update passwords if they differ.
user - / required		Name of user to add aliases: username, name
vhost -	Default: "/"	vhost to apply access privileges. This option will be ignored when permissions option is used.
write_priv -	Default: "^$"	Regular expression to restrict configure actions on a resource for the specified vhost. By default all actions are restricted. This option will be ignored when permissions option is used.

Examples

# Add user to server and assign full access control on / vhost.
# The user might have permission rules for other vhost but you don't care.
- rabbitmq_user:
    user: joe
    password: changeme
    vhost: /
    configure_priv: .*
    read_priv: .*
    write_priv: .*
    state: present

# Add user to server and assign full access control on / vhost.
# The user doesn't have permission rules for other vhosts
- rabbitmq_user:
    user: joe
    password: changeme
    permissions:
      - vhost: /
        configure_priv: .*
        read_priv: .*
        write_priv: .*
    state: present

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Chris Hoffman (@chrishoffman)

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