f5networks.f5_modules.bigip_user – Manage user accounts and user attributes on a BIG-IP

Note

This plugin is part of the f5networks.f5_modules collection (version 1.9.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install f5networks.f5_modules.

To use it in a playbook, specify: f5networks.f5_modules.bigip_user.

New in version 1.0.0: of f5networks.f5_modules

Synopsis

  • Manage user accounts and user attributes on a BIG-IP system. Typically this module operates only on REST API users and not CLI users. When specifying root, you may only change the password. Your other parameters are ignored in this case. Changing the root password is not an idempotent operation. Therefore, it changes the password every time this module attempts to change it.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
full_name
string
Full name of the user.
partition
string
Default:
"Common"
Device partition to manage resources on.
partition_access
list / elements=string
Specifies the administrative partition to which the user has access. partition_access is required when creating a new account, and should be in the form "partition:role".
Valid roles include acceleration-policy-editor, admin, application-editor, auditor, certificate-manager, guest, irule-manager, manager, no-access, operator, resource-admin, user-manager, web-application-security-administrator, and web-application-security-editor.
The partition portion the of tuple should be an existing partition or the value 'all'.
password_credential
string
Set the users password to this unencrypted value. password_credential is required when creating a new account.
provider
dictionary
added in 1.0.0 of f5networks.f5_modules
A dict object containing connection details.
auth_provider
string
Configures the auth provider for to obtain authentication tokens from the remote device.
This option is really used when working with BIG-IQ devices.
no_f5_teem
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
If yes, TEEM telemetry data is not sent to F5.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_TEEM.
password
string / required
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_PASSWORD.

aliases: pass, pwd
server
string / required
The BIG-IP host.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER.
server_port
integer
Default:
443
The BIG-IP server port.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT.
timeout
integer
Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
transport
string
    Choices:
  • rest ←
Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.
user
string / required
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_USER.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS.
shell
string
    Choices:
  • bash
  • none
  • tmsh
Optionally set the users shell.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether the account should exist or not, taking action if the state is different from what is stated.
update_password
string
    Choices:
  • always ←
  • on_create
always allows the user to update passwords. on_create only sets the password for newly created users.
When username_credential is root, this value is forced to always.
username_credential
string / required
Name of the user to create, remove, or modify.
The root user may not be removed.

aliases: name

Notes

Note

  • Requires BIG-IP versions >= 12.0.0

  • For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.

  • Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12.

  • The F5 modules only manipulate the running configuration of the F5 product. To ensure that BIG-IP specific configuration persists to disk, be sure to include at least one task that uses the f5networks.f5_modules.bigip_config module to save the running configuration. Refer to the module’s documentation for the correct usage of the module to save your running configuration.

Examples

- name: Add the user 'johnd' as an admin
  bigip_user:
    username_credential: johnd
    password_credential: password
    full_name: John Doe
    partition_access:
      - all:admin
    update_password: on_create
    state: present
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Change the user "johnd's" role and shell
  bigip_user:
    username_credential: johnd
    partition_access:
      - NewPartition:manager
    shell: tmsh
    state: present
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Make the user 'johnd' an admin and set to advanced shell
  bigip_user:
    name: johnd
    partition_access:
      - all:admin
    shell: bash
    state: present
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove the user 'johnd'
  bigip_user:
    name: johnd
    state: absent
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Update password
  bigip_user:
    state: present
    username_credential: johnd
    password_credential: newsupersecretpassword
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

# Note that the second time this task runs, it would fail because
# The password has been changed. Therefore, it is recommended that
# you either,
#
#   * Put this in its own playbook that you run when you need to
#   * Put this task in a `block`
#   * Include `ignore_errors` on this task
- name: Change the Admin password
  bigip_user:
    state: present
    username_credential: admin
    password_credential: NewSecretPassword
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Change the root user's password
  bigip_user:
    username_credential: root
    password_credential: secret
    state: present
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
full_name
string
changed and success
Full name of the user.

Sample:
John Doe
partition_access
list / elements=string
changed and success
List of strings containing the user's roles and which partitions they are applied to. They are specified in the form "partition:role".

Sample:
['all:admin']
shell
string
changed and success
The shell assigned to the user account.

Sample:
tmsh


Authors

  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

  • Wojciech Wypior (@wojtek0806)