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

I know that I'm late to the party, but there is another solution that I'm using. It might be handy for distros that don't have --stdin in passwd binary.

- hosts: localhost
  become: True
  tasks:
    - name: Change user password
      shell: "yes '{{ item.pass }}' | passwd {{ item.user }}"
      loop:
       - { pass: 123123, user: foo }
       - { pass: asdf, user: bar }
      loop_control:
        label: "{{ item.user }}"

Label in loop_control is responsible for printing only username. The whole playbook or just user variables (you can use vars_files:) should be encrypted with ansible-vault.