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community.mongodb.mongodb_user module – Adds or removes a user from a MongoDB database

Note

This module is part of the community.mongodb collection (version 1.4.2).

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.mongodb. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.mongodb.mongodb_user.

New in community.mongodb 1.0.0

Synopsis 

Adds or removes a user from a MongoDB database.

Requirements 

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

pymongo

Parameters 

Parameter	Comments
auth_mechanism string	Authentication type. Choices: `"SCRAM-SHA-256"` `"SCRAM-SHA-1"` `"MONGODB-X509"` `"GSSAPI"` `"PLAIN"`
connection_options list / elements=any	Additional connection options. Supply as a list of dicts or strings containing key value pairs seperated with ‘=’.
create_for_localhost_exception path	This is parmeter is only useful for handling special treatment around the localhost exception. If `login_user` is defined, then the localhost exception is not active and this parameter has no effect. If this file is NOT present (and `login_user` is not defined), then touch this file after successfully adding the user. If this file is present (and `login_user` is not defined), then skip this task.
database aliases: db string / required	The name of the database to add/remove the user from.
login_database string	The database where login credentials are stored. Default: `"admin"`
login_host string	The host running MongoDB instance to login to. Default: `"localhost"`
login_password string	The password used to authenticate with. Required when login_user is specified.
login_port integer	The MongoDB server port to login to. Default: `27017`
login_user string	The MongoDB user to login with. Required when login_password is specified.
name aliases: user string / required	The name of the user to add or remove.
password aliases: pass string	The password to use for the user.
replica_set string	Replica set to connect to (automatically connects to primary for writes).
roles list / elements=any	The database user roles valid values could either be one or more of the following strings: ‘read’, ‘readWrite’, ‘dbAdmin’, ‘userAdmin’, ‘clusterAdmin’, ‘readAnyDatabase’, ‘readWriteAnyDatabase’, ‘userAdminAnyDatabase’, ‘dbAdminAnyDatabase’ Or the following dictionary ‘{ db: DATABASE_NAME, role: ROLE_NAME }’. This param requires pymongo 2.5+. If it is a string, mongodb 2.4+ is also required. If it is a dictionary, mongo 2.6+ is required.
ssl aliases: tls boolean	Whether to use an SSL connection when connecting to the database. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
ssl_ca_certs aliases: tlsCAFile string	The ssl_ca_certs option takes a path to a CA file.
ssl_cert_reqs aliases: tlsAllowInvalidCertificates string	Specifies whether a certificate is required from the other side of the connection, and whether it will be validated if provided. Choices: `"CERT_NONE"` `"CERT_OPTIONAL"` `"CERT_REQUIRED"` ← (default)
ssl_certfile aliases: tlsCertificateKeyFile string	Present a client certificate using the ssl_certfile option.
ssl_crlfile string	The ssl_crlfile option takes a path to a CRL file.
ssl_keyfile string	Private key for the client certificate.
ssl_pem_passphrase aliases: tlsCertificateKeyFilePassword string	Passphrase to decrypt encrypted private keys.
state string	The database user state. Choices: `"absent"` `"present"` ← (default)
strict_compatibility boolean	Enforce strict requirements for pymongo and MongoDB software versions Choices: `false` `true` ← (default)
update_password string	`always` will always update passwords and cause the module to return changed. `on_create` will only set the password for newly created users. This must be `always` to use the localhost exception when adding the first admin user. This option is effectively ignored when using x.509 certs. It is defaulted to ‘on_create’ to maintain a a specific module behaviour when the login_database is ‘$external’. Choices: `"always"` ← (default) `"on_create"`

Notes 

Note

Requires the pymongo Python package on the remote host, version 2.4.2+. This can be installed using pip or the OS package manager. Newer mongo server versions require newer pymongo versions. @see http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/installation.html

Examples 

- name: Create 'burgers' database user with name 'bob' and password '12345'.
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: bob
    password: 12345
    state: present

- name: Create a database user via SSL (MongoDB must be compiled with the SSL option and configured properly)
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: bob
    password: 12345
    state: present
    ssl: True

- name: Delete 'burgers' database user with name 'bob'.
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: bob
    state: absent

- name: Define more users with various specific roles (if not defined, no roles is assigned, and the user will be added via pre mongo 2.2 style)
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: ben
    password: 12345
    roles: read
    state: present

- name: Define roles
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: jim
    password: 12345
    roles: readWrite,dbAdmin,userAdmin
    state: present

- name: Define roles
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: joe
    password: 12345
    roles: readWriteAnyDatabase
    state: present

- name: Add a user to database in a replica set, the primary server is automatically discovered and written to
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: bob
    replica_set: belcher
    password: 12345
    roles: readWriteAnyDatabase
    state: present

# add a user 'oplog_reader' with read only access to the 'local' database on the replica_set 'belcher'. This is useful for oplog access (MONGO_OPLOG_URL).
# please notice the credentials must be added to the 'admin' database because the 'local' database is not synchronized and can't receive user credentials
# To login with such user, the connection string should be MONGO_OPLOG_URL="mongodb://oplog_reader:oplog_reader_password@server1,server2/local?authSource=admin"
# This syntax requires mongodb 2.6+ and pymongo 2.5+
- name: Roles as a dictionary
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    login_user: root
    login_password: root_password
    database: admin
    user: oplog_reader
    password: oplog_reader_password
    state: present
    replica_set: belcher
    roles:
      - db: local
        role: read

- name: Adding a user with X.509 Member Authentication
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    login_host: "mongodb-host.test"
    login_port: 27001
    login_database: "$external"
    database: "admin"
    name: "admin"
    password: "test"
    roles:
    - dbAdminAnyDatabase
    ssl: true
    ssl_ca_certs: "/tmp/ca.crt"
    ssl_certfile: "/tmp/tls.key" #cert and key in one file
    state: present
    auth_mechanism: "MONGODB-X509"
    connection_options:
     - "tlsAllowInvalidHostnames=true"

Return Values 

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

Key	Description
user string	The name of the user to add or remove. Returned: success

Authors

Elliott Foster (@elliotttf)
Julien Thebault (@Lujeni)

Collection links

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community.mongodb.mongodb_user module – Adds or removes a user from a MongoDB database

Synopsis

Requirements

Parameters

Notes

Examples

Return Values