community.general.vertica_user – Adds or removes Vertica database users and assigns roles.¶
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.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¶
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 thatunixODBC
andpyodbc
is installed on the host and properly configured.Configuring
unixODBC
for Vertica requiresDriver = /opt/vertica/lib64/libverticaodbc.so
to be added to theVertica
section of either/etc/odbcinst.ini
or$HOME/.odbcinst.ini
and bothErrorMessagesPath = /opt/vertica/lib64
andDriverManagerEncoding = UTF-16
to be added to theDriver
section of either/etc/vertica.ini
or$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)