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

it completes as expected but when I login as that user and try to sudo with the password I set it always says it's incorrect. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I may be too late to reply this but recently I figured out that jinja2 filters have the capability to handle the generation of encrypted passwords. In my main.yml I'm generating the encrypted password as:

- name: Creating user "{{ uusername }}" with admin access
  user: 
    name: {{ uusername }}
    password: {{ upassword | password_hash('sha512') }}
    groups: admin append=yes
  when:  assigned_role  == "yes"

- name: Creating users "{{ uusername }}" without admin access
  user:
    name: {{ uusername }}
    password: {{ upassword | password_hash('sha512') }}
  when:  assigned_role == "no"

- name: Expiring password for user "{{ uusername }}"
  shell: chage -d 0 "{{ uusername }}"

"uusername " and "upassword " are passed as --extra-vars to the playbook and notice I have used jinja2 filter here to encrypt the passed password.

I have added below tutorial related to this to my blog

• https://thinkingmonster.wordpress.com/it-automation/386-2/ansible-roles/