This Role Has Been Deprecated: Please use the version in the oasis_roles.system Ansible Collection

PASSWD

This role changes the password for a user account.

Requirements

Ansible 2.4 or higher

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or equivalent

Valid Red Hat Subscriptions

Role Variables

Currently the following variables are supported:

General

• passwd_username - REQUIRED - The username for which to change the password

• passwd_password - REQUIRED - Password hash to pass to Ansible's user module. IMPORTANT: See Ansible's documentation for properly and securely generating and storing this hash.

• passwd_become - Defaults to true. Whether or not to use the become feature of Ansible to gain admin privileges. This will be necesssary for changing the root password, or the password of a user other than Ansible's remote_user.

• passwd_become_user - Defaults to root. The user to sudo/become

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: passwd-servers
  roles:
    - role: oasis-roles.passwd
      passwd_username: root
      passwd_password: "<password_hash>"
      passwd_become: true
      passwd_become_user: root

License

GPLv3

Author Information

David Roble [email protected]