Can anyone help me on creating a user with password using adhoc command I have f . . .

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#1

Giffin George:
Can anyone help me on creating a user with password using adhoc command
I have faced issue in creating the password .

#2

Andrei Andriushin:
Hi! Can you share example of your playbook/command?

#3

Andrei Andriushin:
Playbook example for linux:

- name: Update admin's password
  ansible.builtin.user:
    name: admin
    password: "{{ password | password_hash('sha512') }}"
#4

Giffin George:
okay

#5

Giffin George:
I have faced issue in using this format

#6

Giffin George:
ansible all -b -m ansible.builtin.user -a ‘name=Tim password=“202cb962ac59075b964b07152d234b70” uid=5005 comment=Dummy_user shell=/usr/sbin/nologin password_expire_max=10’

#7

Giffin George:
can I use this mentioned for creating a user with password

#8

Giffin George:

mkpasswd --method=sha-512
#9

Giffin George:
i have also try to create password using sha-512

#10

Giffin George:
but still facing the issue

#11

Andrei Andriushin:
if you don’t want to use playbook, I guess the most easiest way is:

ansible all -b  -m  ansible.builtin.user -a '/usr/bin/yes <password> | /usr/bin/passwd <username>'

Set password using variable if you don’t want to store it in histroy:

read pass_var && ansible all -b  -m  ansible.builtin.user -a '/usr/bin/yes "$pass_var" | /usr/bin/passwd <username>'

Another way if you want to create user with password:

 pass='{{ '"'pass' | password_hash('sha512') "'}}' && ansible localhost -b  -m  ansible.builtin.user -a "name=tim password='$pass' comment=Dummy_user shell=/usr/bin/bash"

Also:
• Try to not use upper-case letters in usernames. Case-insensitivity is only about Windows
• uid will be generated automatically - you don’t need to put this
• password_expire_max doesn’t supported in this mode (in my case) - use expires instead

#12

Giffin George:
thank you

#13

Andrei Andriushin:
Feel free to reach me :wink: