community.general.ldap_entry – Add or remove LDAP entries.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

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

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

Synopsis

  • Add or remove LDAP entries. This module only asserts the existence or non-existence of an LDAP entry, not its attributes. To assert the attribute values of an entry, see community.general.ldap_attrs.

Requirements

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

  • python-ldap

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

attributes

dictionary

If state=present, attributes necessary to create an entry. Existing entries are never modified. To assert specific attribute values on an existing entry, use community.general.ldap_attrs module instead.

bind_dn

string

A DN to bind with. If this is omitted, we’ll try a SASL bind with the EXTERNAL mechanism as default.

If this is blank, we’ll use an anonymous bind.

bind_pw

string

The password to use with bind_dn.

dn

string / required

The DN of the entry to add or remove.

objectClass

list / elements=string

If state=present, value or list of values to use when creating the entry. It can either be a string or an actual list of strings.

referrals_chasing

string

added in 2.0.0 of community.general

Set the referrals chasing behavior.

anonymous follow referrals anonymously. This is the default behavior.

disabled disable referrals chasing. This sets OPT_REFERRALS to off.

Choices:

  • disabled

  • anonymous ← (default)

sasl_class

string

added in 2.0.0 of community.general

The class to use for SASL authentication.

possible choices are external, gssapi.

Choices:

  • external ← (default)

  • gssapi

server_uri

string

A URI to the LDAP server.

The default value lets the underlying LDAP client library look for a UNIX domain socket in its default location.

Default: “ldapi:///”

start_tls

boolean

If true, we’ll use the START_TLS LDAP extension.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

state

string

The target state of the entry.

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

validate_certs

boolean

If set to no, SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only be used on sites using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • The default authentication settings will attempt to use a SASL EXTERNAL bind over a UNIX domain socket. This works well with the default Ubuntu install for example, which includes a cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth ACL rule allowing root to modify the server configuration. If you need to use a simple bind to access your server, pass the credentials in bind_dn and bind_pw.

Examples

- name: Make sure we have a parent entry for users
  community.general.ldap_entry:
    dn: ou=users,dc=example,dc=com
    objectClass: organizationalUnit

- name: Make sure we have an admin user
  community.general.ldap_entry:
    dn: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com
    objectClass:
      - simpleSecurityObject
      - organizationalRole
    attributes:
      description: An LDAP administrator
      userPassword: "{SSHA}tabyipcHzhwESzRaGA7oQ/SDoBZQOGND"

- name: Get rid of an old entry
  community.general.ldap_entry:
    dn: ou=stuff,dc=example,dc=com
    state: absent
    server_uri: ldap://localhost/
    bind_dn: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com
    bind_pw: password

#
# The same as in the previous example but with the authentication details
# stored in the ldap_auth variable:
#
# ldap_auth:
#   server_uri: ldap://localhost/
#   bind_dn: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com
#   bind_pw: password
#
# In the example below, 'args' is a task keyword, passed at the same level as the module
- name: Get rid of an old entry
  community.general.ldap_entry:
    dn: ou=stuff,dc=example,dc=com
    state: absent
  args: "{{ ldap_auth }}"

Authors

  • Jiri Tyr (@jtyr)