community.general.sudoers module – Manage sudoers files

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.2).

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.general.

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

New in community.general 4.3.0

Synopsis

  • This module allows for the manipulation of sudoers files.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

commands

list / elements=string

The commands allowed by the sudoers rule.

Multiple can be added by passing a list of commands.

Use ALL for all commands.

group

string

The name of the group for the sudoers rule.

This option cannot be used in conjunction with user.

host

string

added in community.general 6.2.0

Specify the host the rule is for.

Default: "ALL"

name

string / required

The name of the sudoers rule.

This will be used for the filename for the sudoers file managed by this rule.

nopassword

boolean

Whether a password will be required to run the sudo’d command.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

runas

string

added in community.general 4.7.0

Specify the target user the command(s) will run as.

setenv

boolean

added in community.general 6.3.0

Whether to allow keeping the environment when command is run with sudo.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

state

string

Whether the rule should exist or not.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

sudoers_path

string

The path which sudoers config files will be managed in.

Default: "/etc/sudoers.d"

user

string

The name of the user for the sudoers rule.

This option cannot be used in conjunction with group.

validation

string

added in community.general 5.2.0

If absent, the sudoers rule will be added without validation.

If detect and visudo is available, then the sudoers rule will be validated by visudo.

If required, visudo must be available to validate the sudoers rule.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "detect" ← (default)

  • "required"

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Allow the backup user to sudo /usr/local/bin/backup
  community.general.sudoers:
    name: allow-backup
    state: present
    user: backup
    commands: /usr/local/bin/backup

- name: Allow the bob user to run any commands as alice with sudo -u alice
  community.general.sudoers:
    name: bob-do-as-alice
    state: present
    user: bob
    runas: alice
    commands: ALL

- name: >-
    Allow the monitoring group to run sudo /usr/local/bin/gather-app-metrics
    without requiring a password on the host called webserver
  community.general.sudoers:
    name: monitor-app
    group: monitoring
    host: webserver
    commands: /usr/local/bin/gather-app-metrics

- name: >-
    Allow the alice user to run sudo /bin/systemctl restart my-service or
    sudo /bin/systemctl reload my-service, but a password is required
  community.general.sudoers:
    name: alice-service
    user: alice
    commands:
      - /bin/systemctl restart my-service
      - /bin/systemctl reload my-service
    nopassword: false

- name: Revoke the previous sudo grants given to the alice user
  community.general.sudoers:
    name: alice-service
    state: absent

- name: Allow alice to sudo /usr/local/bin/upload and keep env variables
  community.general.sudoers:
    name: allow-alice-upload
    user: alice
    commands: /usr/local/bin/upload
    setenv: true

Authors

  • Jon Ellis (@JonEllis)