A simple ansible role to add a unix user with its ssh key.
It was tested on the following versions:
- 2.10-17
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04, 20.04, Centos/Rockylinux 9.
Just include this role in your list. For example
- host: myhost
roles:
- juju4.adduser
you probably want to review variables
adduser_user_name: deploy
adduser_user_comments: ""
adduser_sudoroot: true
adduser_password: change_me_or_die!
adduser_public_keys:
- dummykey.pub
- adduser_user_name: username to add
- adduser_password: input should be hash except for darwin. please use ansible vault to store your real password
- adduser_public_keys: list of corresponding authorized keys
This role has a travis basic test (for github), more advanced with kitchen and also a Vagrantfile (test/vagrant). Default kitchen config (.kitchen.yml) is lxd-based, while (.kitchen.vagrant.yml) is vagrant/virtualbox based.
Once you ensured all necessary roles are present, You can test with:
$ gem install kitchen-ansible kitchen-lxd_cli kitchen-sync kitchen-vagrant
$ cd /path/to/roles/juju4.adduser
$ kitchen verify
$ kitchen login
$ KITCHEN_YAML=".kitchen.vagrant.yml" kitchen verify
or
$ cd /path/to/roles/juju4.adduser/test/vagrant
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
or
$ pip install molecule docker
$ molecule test
$ MOLECULE_DISTRO=ubuntu:24.04 molecule test --destroy=never
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under OpenBSD, leaving password field cause an issue.
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repomd.xml does not match metalink for epelon Centos/Redhat uncomment baselist and comment mirrorlist in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30949707/centos-6-6-errno-1-repomd-xml-does-not-match-metalink-for-updates-when-tryin) Centos6 might also need ansible 2.1 (not 2.2) because ofERROR! Unexpected Exception: 'module' object has no attribute 'HAVE_DECL_MPZ_POWM_SEC' -
Adding ssh key task still seen as successful even if failed because a key was not readable, path incorrect or else. need to review log with verbosity 1.
BSD 2-clause