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

If you'd like to accomplish this as a Ansible ad-hoc command you can do the following:

$ password='SomethingSecret!'
$ ansible 192.168.1.10 -i some_inventory -b -m user -a "name=joe_user \
       update_password=always password=\"{{ \"$password\" | password_hash('sha512') }}\""

Output from above command:

192.168.1.10 | SUCCESS => {
    "append": false,
    "changed": true,
    "comment": "Joe User",
    "group": 999,
    "home": "/home/joe_user",
    "move_home": false,
    "name": "joe_user",
    "password": "NOT_LOGGING_PASSWORD",
    "shell": "/bin/bash",
    "state": "present",
    "uid": 999
}