community.general.proxmox_user_info – Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE users

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

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

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

New in version 1.3.0: of community.general

Synopsis

• Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE users

Requirements

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

• proxmoxer

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_host string / required		Specify the target host of the Proxmox VE cluster.
api_password string		Specify the password to authenticate with. You can use PROXMOX_PASSWORD environment variable.
api_token_id string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		Specify the token ID.
api_token_secret string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		Specify the token secret.
api_user string / required		Specify the user to authenticate with.
domain string		Restrict results to a specific authentication realm. aliases: realm
user string		Restrict results to a specific user. aliases: name
userid string		Restrict results to a specific user ID, which is a concatenation of a user and domain parts.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no ← yes	If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: List existing users
  community.general.proxmox_user_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
  register: proxmox_users

- name: List existing users in the pve authentication realm
  community.general.proxmox_user_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
    domain: pve
  register: proxmox_users_pve

- name: Retrieve information about admin@pve
  community.general.proxmox_user_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
    userid: admin@pve
  register: proxmox_user_admin

- name: Alternative way to retrieve information about admin@pve
  community.general.proxmox_user_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
    user: admin
    domain: pve
  register: proxmox_user_admin

Return Values

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

Key			Returned	Description
proxmox_users list / elements=dictionary			always, but can be empty	List of users.
	comment string		on success	Short description of the user.
	domain string		on success	User's authentication realm, also the right part of the user ID.
	email string		on success	User's email address.
	enabled boolean		on success	User's account state.
	expire integer		on success	Expiration date in seconds since EPOCH. Zero means no expiration.
	firstname string		on success	User's first name.
	groups list / elements=string		on success	List of groups which the user is a member of.
	keys string		on success	User's two factor authentication keys.
	lastname string		on success	User's last name.
	tokens list / elements=dictionary		on success	List of API tokens associated to the user.
		comment string	on success	Short description of the token.
		expire integer	on success	Expiration date in seconds since EPOCH. Zero means no expiration.
		privsep boolean	on success	Describe if the API token is further restricted with ACLs or is fully privileged.
		tokenid string	on success	Token name.
	user string		on success	User's login name, also the left part of the user ID.
	userid string		on success	Proxmox user ID, represented as user@realm.

Authors

• Tristan Le Guern (@Aversiste)