README-privilege.md

Privilege module

Description

The privilege module allows to ensure presence and absence of privileges and privilege members.

Features

• Privilege management

Supported FreeIPA Versions

FreeIPA versions 4.4.0 and up are supported by the ipaprivilege module.

Requirements

Controller

• Ansible version: 2.15+

Node

• Supported FreeIPA version (see above)

Usage

Example inventory file

[ipaserver]
ipaserver.test.local

Example playbook to make sure privilege "Broad Privilege" is present:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA privilege.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes

  tasks:
  - ipaprivilege:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: Broad Privilege
      description: Broad Privilege

Example playbook to make sure privilege "Broad Privilege" member permission has multiple values:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA privilege permission member.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes

  tasks:
  - ipaprivilege:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: Broad Privilege
      permission:
      - "Write IPA Configuration"
      - "System: Write DNS Configuration"
      - "System: Update DNS Entries"
      action: member

Example playbook to make sure privilege "Broad Privilege" member permission 'Write IPA Configuration' is absent:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA privilege permission member.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes

  tasks:
  - ipaprivilege:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: Broad Privilege
      permission:
      - "Write IPA Configuration"
      action: member
      state: absent

Example playbook to rename privilege "Broad Privilege" to "DNS Special Privilege":

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA privilege.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes

  tasks:
  - ipaprivilege:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: Broad Privilege
      rename: DNS Special Privilege
      state: renamed

Example playbook to make sure privilege "DNS Special Privilege" is absent:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA privilege.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes
  - name: Ensure privilege Broad Privilege is absent
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: DNS Special Privilege
      state: absent

Variables

Variable	Description	Required
ipaadmin_principal	The admin principal is a string and defaults to admin.	no
ipaadmin_password	The admin password is a string and is required if there is no admin ticket available on the node.	no
ipaapi_context	The context in which the module will execute. Executing in a server context is preferred. If not provided context will be determined by the execution environment. Valid values are server and client.	no
ipaapi_ldap_cache	Use LDAP cache for IPA connection. The bool setting defaults to yes. (bool)	no
name | cn	The list of privilege name strings.	yes
description	Privilege description.	no
rename | new_name	Rename the privilege object.	no
permission	Permissions to be added to the privilege.	no
action	Work on privilege or member level. It can be one of member or privilege and defaults to privilege.	no
state	The state to ensure. It can be one of present, absent or renamed, default: present.	no

Authors

Rafael Guterres Jeffman