community.general.ldap_attrs module – Add or remove multiple LDAP attribute values

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.1.0).

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

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

New in community.general 0.2.0

Synopsis 

Add or remove multiple LDAP attribute values.

Requirements 

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

python-ldap

Parameters 

Parameter	Comments
attributes dictionary / required	The attribute(s) and value(s) to add or remove. Each attribute value can be a string for single-valued attributes or a list of strings for multi-valued attributes. If you specify values for this option in YAML, please note that you can improve readability for long string values by using YAML block modifiers as seen in the examples for this module. Note that when using values that YAML/ansible-core interprets as other types, like `yes`, `no` (booleans), or `2.10` (float), make sure to quote them if these are meant to be strings. Otherwise the wrong values may be sent to LDAP.
bind_dn string	A DN to bind with. If this is omitted, we’ll try a SASL bind with the EXTERNAL mechanism as default. If this is blank, we’ll use an anonymous bind.
bind_pw string	The password to use with `bind_dn`. Default: `""`
ca_path path added in community.general 6.5.0	Set the path to PEM file with CA certs.
client_cert path added in community.general 7.1.0	PEM formatted certificate chain file to be used for SSL client authentication. Required if `client_key` is defined.
client_key path added in community.general 7.1.0	PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for SSL client authentication. Required if `client_cert` is defined.
dn string / required	The DN of the entry to add or remove.
ordered boolean	If `true`, prepend list values with X-ORDERED index numbers in all attributes specified in the current task. This is useful mostly with `olcAccess` attribute to easily manage LDAP Access Control Lists. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
referrals_chasing string added in community.general 2.0.0	Set the referrals chasing behavior. `anonymous` follow referrals anonymously. This is the default behavior. `disabled` disable referrals chasing. This sets `OPT_REFERRALS` to off. Choices: `"disabled"` `"anonymous"` ← (default)
sasl_class string added in community.general 2.0.0	The class to use for SASL authentication. Choices: `"external"` ← (default) `"gssapi"`
server_uri string	The `server_uri` parameter may be a comma- or whitespace-separated list of URIs containing only the schema, the host, and the port fields. The default value lets the underlying LDAP client library look for a UNIX domain socket in its default location. Note that when using multiple URIs you cannot determine to which URI your client gets connected. For URIs containing additional fields, particularly when using commas, behavior is undefined. Default: `"ldapi:///"`
start_tls boolean	If true, we’ll use the START_TLS LDAP extension. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
state string	The state of the attribute values. If `present`, all given attribute values will be added if they’re missing. If `absent`, all given attribute values will be removed if present. If `exact`, the set of attribute values will be forced to exactly those provided and no others. If `state=exact` and the attribute value is empty, all values for this attribute will be removed. Choices: `"present"` ← (default) `"absent"` `"exact"`
validate_certs boolean	If set to `false`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on sites using self-signed certificates. Choices: `false` `true` ← (default)
xorder_discovery string added in community.general 6.4.0	Set the behavior on how to process Xordered DNs. `enable` will perform a `ONELEVEL` search below the superior RDN to find the matching DN. `disable` will always use the DN unmodified (as passed by the `dn` parameter). `auto` will only perform a search if the first RDN does not contain an index number (`{x}`). Choices: `"enable"` `"auto"` ← (default) `"disable"`

Attributes 

Attribute	Support	Description
check_mode	Support: full	Can run in `check_mode` and return changed status prediction without modifying target.
diff_mode	Support: full added in community.general 8.5.0	Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in `check_mode`), when in diff mode.

Notes 

Note

This only deals with attributes on existing entries. To add or remove whole entries, see community.general.ldap_entry.
The default authentication settings will attempt to use a SASL EXTERNAL bind over a UNIX domain socket. This works well with the default Ubuntu install for example, which includes a cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth ACL rule allowing root to modify the server configuration. If you need to use a simple bind to access your server, pass the credentials in bind_dn and bind_pw.
For state=present and state=absent, all value comparisons are performed on the server for maximum accuracy. For state=exact, values have to be compared in Python, which obviously ignores LDAP matching rules. This should work out in most cases, but it is theoretically possible to see spurious changes when target and actual values are semantically identical but lexically distinct.

Examples 

- name: Configure directory number 1 for example.com
  community.general.ldap_attrs:
    dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config
    attributes:
        olcSuffix: dc=example,dc=com
    state: exact

# The complex argument format is required here to pass a list of ACL strings.
- name: Set up the ACL
  community.general.ldap_attrs:
    dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config
    attributes:
        olcAccess:
          - >-
            {0}to attrs=userPassword,shadowLastChange
            by self write
            by anonymous auth
            by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" write
            by * none'
          - >-
            {1}to dn.base="dc=example,dc=com"
            by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" write
            by * read
    state: exact

# An alternative approach with automatic X-ORDERED numbering
- name: Set up the ACL
  community.general.ldap_attrs:
    dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config
    attributes:
        olcAccess:
          - >-
            to attrs=userPassword,shadowLastChange
            by self write
            by anonymous auth
            by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" write
            by * none'
          - >-
            to dn.base="dc=example,dc=com"
            by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" write
            by * read
    ordered: true
    state: exact

- name: Declare some indexes
  community.general.ldap_attrs:
    dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config
    attributes:
        olcDbIndex:
            - objectClass eq
            - uid eq

- name: Set up a root user, which we can use later to bootstrap the directory
  community.general.ldap_attrs:
    dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config
    attributes:
        olcRootDN: cn=root,dc=example,dc=com
        olcRootPW: "{SSHA}tabyipcHzhwESzRaGA7oQ/SDoBZQOGND"
    state: exact

- name: Remove an attribute with a specific value
  community.general.ldap_attrs:
    dn: uid=jdoe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
    attributes:
        description: "An example user account"
    state: absent
    server_uri: ldap://localhost/
    bind_dn: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com
    bind_pw: password

- name: Remove specified attribute(s) from an entry
  community.general.ldap_attrs:
    dn: uid=jdoe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
    attributes:
        description: []
    state: exact
    server_uri: ldap://localhost/
    bind_dn: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com
    bind_pw: password

Return Values 

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

Key	Description
modlist list / elements=string	list of modified parameters Returned: success Sample: `[[2, "olcRootDN", ["cn=root,dc=example,dc=com"]]]`

Authors

Jiri Tyr (@jtyr)
Alexander Korinek (@noles)
Maciej Delmanowski (@drybjed)

community.general.ldap_attrs module – Add or remove multiple LDAP attribute values

Synopsis

Requirements

Parameters

Attributes

Notes

Examples

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