theforeman.foreman.usergroup module – Manage User Groups

Note

This module 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.usergroup.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Create, update, and delete user groups

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

admin

boolean

Whether or not the users in this group are administrators

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

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.

roles

list / elements=string

List of roles assigned to the group

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

updated_name

string

New user group name. When this parameter is set, the module will not be idempotent.

usergroups

list / elements=string

List of other groups assigned to the group

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.

users

list / elements=string

List of users assigned to the group

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 a user group
  theforeman.foreman.usergroup:
    name: test
    admin: no
    roles:
      - Manager
    users:
      - myuser1
      - myuser2
    usergroups:
      - mynestedgroup
    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

usergroups

list / elements=dictionary

List of usergroups.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Baptiste Agasse (@bagasse)