fortinet.fortios.fortios_user_group module – Configure user groups in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiGate.

Note

This module is part of the fortinet.fortios collection (version 2.1.6).

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 fortinet.fortios.

To use it in a playbook, specify: fortinet.fortios.fortios_user_group.

New in version 2.0.0: of fortinet.fortios

Synopsis

  • This module is able to configure a FortiGate or FortiOS (FOS) device by allowing the user to set and modify user feature and group category. Examples include all parameters and values need to be adjusted to datasources before usage. Tested with FOS v6.0.0

Requirements

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

  • ansible>=2.9.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

access_token

string

Token-based authentication. Generated from GUI of Fortigate.

enable_log

boolean

Enable/Disable logging for task.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

member_path

string

Member attribute path to operate on.

Delimited by a slash character if there are more than one attribute.

Parameter marked with member_path is legitimate for doing member operation.

member_state

string

Add or delete a member under specified attribute path.

When member_state is specified, the state option is ignored.

Choices:

  • present

  • absent

state

string / required

Indicates whether to create or remove the object.

Choices:

  • present

  • absent

user_group

dictionary

Configure user groups.

auth_concurrent_override

string

Enable/disable overriding the global number of concurrent authentication sessions for this user group.

Choices:

  • enable

  • disable

auth_concurrent_value

integer

Maximum number of concurrent authenticated connections per user (0 - 100).

authtimeout

integer

Authentication timeout in minutes for this user group. 0 to use the global user setting auth-timeout.

company

string

Set the action for the company guest user field.

Choices:

  • optional

  • mandatory

  • disabled

email

string

Enable/disable the guest user email address field.

Choices:

  • disable

  • enable

expire

integer

Time in seconds before guest user accounts expire (1 - 31536000).

expire_type

string

Determine when the expiration countdown begins.

Choices:

  • immediately

  • first-successful-login

group_type

string

Set the group to be for firewall authentication, FSSO, RSSO, or guest users.

Choices:

  • firewall

  • fsso-service

  • rsso

  • guest

guest

list / elements=dictionary

Guest User.

comment

string

Comment.

company

string

Set the action for the company guest user field.

email

string

Email.

expiration

string

Expire time.

id

integer / required

Guest ID.

mobile_phone

string

Mobile phone.

name

string

Guest name.

password

string

Guest password.

sponsor

string

Set the action for the sponsor guest user field.

user_id

string

Guest ID.

http_digest_realm

string

Realm attribute for MD5-digest authentication.

id

integer

Group ID.

match

list / elements=dictionary

Group matches.

group_name

string

Name of matching user or group on remote authentication server.

id

integer / required

ID.

server_name

string

Name of remote auth server. Source user.radius.name user.ldap.name user.tacacs+.name user.saml.name.

max_accounts

integer

Maximum number of guest accounts that can be created for this group (0 means unlimited).

member

list / elements=dictionary

Names of users, peers, LDAP severs, or RADIUS servers to add to the user group.

name

string / required

Group member name. Source user.peer.name user.local.name user.radius.name user.tacacs+.name user.ldap.name user.saml.name user .adgrp.name user.pop3.name user.certificate.name.

mobile_phone

string

Enable/disable the guest user mobile phone number field.

Choices:

  • disable

  • enable

multiple_guest_add

string

Enable/disable addition of multiple guests.

Choices:

  • disable

  • enable

name

string / required

Group name.

password

string

Guest user password type.

Choices:

  • auto-generate

  • specify

  • disable

sms_custom_server

string

SMS server. Source system.sms-server.name.

sms_server

string

Send SMS through FortiGuard or other external server.

Choices:

  • fortiguard

  • custom

sponsor

string

Set the action for the sponsor guest user field.

Choices:

  • optional

  • mandatory

  • disabled

sso_attribute_value

string

Name of the RADIUS user group that this local user group represents.

user_id

string

Guest user ID type.

Choices:

  • email

  • auto-generate

  • specify

user_name

string

Enable/disable the guest user name entry.

Choices:

  • disable

  • enable

vdom

string

Virtual domain, among those defined previously. A vdom is a virtual instance of the FortiGate that can be configured and used as a different unit.

Default: “root”

Notes

Note

  • Legacy fortiosapi has been deprecated, httpapi is the preferred way to run playbooks

Examples

- hosts: fortigates
  collections:
    - fortinet.fortios
  connection: httpapi
  vars:
   vdom: "root"
   ansible_httpapi_use_ssl: yes
   ansible_httpapi_validate_certs: no
   ansible_httpapi_port: 443
  tasks:
  - name: Configure user groups.
    fortios_user_group:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      state: "present"
      access_token: "<your_own_value>"
      user_group:
        auth_concurrent_override: "enable"
        auth_concurrent_value: "4"
        authtimeout: "5"
        company: "optional"
        email: "disable"
        expire: "8"
        expire_type: "immediately"
        group_type: "firewall"
        guest:
         -
            comment: "Comment."
            company: "<your_own_value>"
            email: "<your_own_value>"
            expiration: "<your_own_value>"
            id:  "16"
            mobile_phone: "<your_own_value>"
            name: "default_name_18"
            password: "<your_own_value>"
            sponsor: "<your_own_value>"
            user_id: "<your_own_value>"
        http_digest_realm: "<your_own_value>"
        id:  "23"
        match:
         -
            group_name: "<your_own_value>"
            id:  "26"
            server_name: "<your_own_value> (source user.radius.name user.ldap.name user.tacacs+.name user.saml.name)"
        max_accounts: "28"
        member:
         -
            name: "default_name_30 (source user.peer.name user.local.name user.radius.name user.tacacs+.name user.ldap.name user.saml.name user.adgrp.name
               user.pop3.name user.certificate.name)"
        mobile_phone: "disable"
        multiple_guest_add: "disable"
        name: "default_name_33"
        password: "auto-generate"
        sms_custom_server: "<your_own_value> (source system.sms-server.name)"
        sms_server: "fortiguard"
        sponsor: "optional"
        sso_attribute_value: "<your_own_value>"
        user_id: "email"
        user_name: "disable"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

build

string

Build number of the fortigate image

Returned: always

Sample: “1547”

http_method

string

Last method used to provision the content into FortiGate

Returned: always

Sample: “PUT”

http_status

string

Last result given by FortiGate on last operation applied

Returned: always

Sample: “200”

mkey

string

Master key (id) used in the last call to FortiGate

Returned: success

Sample: “id”

name

string

Name of the table used to fulfill the request

Returned: always

Sample: “urlfilter”

path

string

Path of the table used to fulfill the request

Returned: always

Sample: “webfilter”

revision

string

Internal revision number

Returned: always

Sample: “17.0.2.10658”

serial

string

Serial number of the unit

Returned: always

Sample: “FGVMEVYYQT3AB5352”

status

string

Indication of the operation’s result

Returned: always

Sample: “success”

vdom

string

Virtual domain used

Returned: always

Sample: “root”

version

string

Version of the FortiGate

Returned: always

Sample: “v5.6.3”

Authors

  • Link Zheng (@chillancezen)

  • Jie Xue (@JieX19)

  • Hongbin Lu (@fgtdev-hblu)

  • Frank Shen (@frankshen01)

  • Miguel Angel Munoz (@mamunozgonzalez)

  • Nicolas Thomas (@thomnico)