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theforeman.foreman.external_usergroup – Manage External User Groups

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.2.0).

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 theforeman.foreman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.external_usergroup.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

• Create, update, and delete external user groups

Requirements

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

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
auth_source aliases: auth_source_ldap string / required	Name of the authentication source to be used for this group
name string / required	Name of the group
password string / required	Password of the user accessing the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_PASSWORD will be used instead.
server_url string / required	URL of the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_SERVER_URL will be used instead.
state string	State of the entity Choices: present ← (default) absent
usergroup string / required	Name of the linked usergroup
username string / required	Username accessing the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_USERNAME will be used instead.
validate_certs boolean	Whether or not to verify the TLS certificates of the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead. Choices: no yes ← (default)

Examples

- name: Create an external user group
  theforeman.foreman.external_usergroup:
    name: test
    auth_source: "My LDAP server"
    usergroup: "Internal Usergroup"
    state: present
- name: Link a group from FreeIPA
  theforeman.foreman.external_usergroup:
    name: ipa_users
    auth_source: "External"
    usergroup: "Internal Usergroup"
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key	Description
entity dictionary	Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type. Returned: success
external_usergroups list / elements=dictionary	List of external usergroups. Returned: success

Authors

• Kirill Shirinkin (@Fodoj)