Creating a new user and password with Ansible

Question

I have an ansible task which creates a new user on ubuntu 12.04;

- name: Add deployment user
    action: user name=deployer password=mypassword

Answer 1

Generating random password for user

first need to define users variable then follow below

tasks:

- name: Generate Passwords
  become: no
  local_action: command pwgen -N 1 8
  with_items: '{{ users }}'
  register: user_passwords

- name: Update User Passwords
  user:
    name: '{{ item.item }}'
    password: "{{ item.stdout | password_hash('sha512')}}"
    update_password: on_create
  with_items: '{{ user_passwords.results }}'

- name: Save Passwords Locally
  become: no
  local_action: copy content={{ item.stdout }} dest=./{{ item.item }}.txt
  with_items: '{{ user_passwords.results }}'