Create user with option --disabled-password by Ansible

Question

On Ubuntu 14.04 I creating user with disabled password like:

sudo adduser --disabled-password myuser

I need to do same with Ansible

Answer 1

Since Ansible 2.6 the user module has the option password_lock, which will run usermod -L (Linux), pw lock (FreeBSD), or usermod -C (?):

usermod -L:

Lock a user's password. This puts a '!' in front of the encrypted password, effectively disabling the password.

pw lock:

The pw utility supports a simple password locking mechanism for users; it works by prepending the string *LOCKED* to the beginning of the password field in master.passwd to prevent successful authentication.

So you could use:

- name: Create password locked user
  user:
    name: myuser
    state: present
    password_lock: yes