Introduction
Today we're going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about the user module bug and possible workaround.
I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot
Demo
The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live Playbook to show you practically the user module bug triage and possible workaround!
error code
- userbug_error.yml
``yaml
---
- name: user module Playbook
hosts: all
become: true
vars:
myuser: "example"
tasks:
- name: password expiration
ansible.builtin.user:
name: "{{ myuser }}"
password_expire_min: 7
password_expire_max: 90
`
error execution
``bash
$ ansible-playbook -i Playbook/inventory troubleshooting/userbug_error.yml.yml
PLAY [user module Playbook] **
TASK [Gathering Facts] *
ok: [demo.example.com]
TASK [password expiration] *
changed: [demo.example.com]
PLAY RECAP *
demo.example.com : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i Playbook/inventory user\ expiration/user.yml
PLAY [user module Playbook] **
TASK [Gathering Facts] *
ok: [demo.example.com]
TASK [password expiration] *
ok: [demo.example.com]
PLAY RECAP *
demo.example.com : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
ansible-pilot $ ssh [email protected]
Last login: Mon Nov 8 17:09:16 2021 from 192.168.43.5
[devops@demo ~]$ sudo su
[root@demo devops]# chage -l example
Last password change : Nov 08, 2021
Password expires : Feb 06, 2022
Password inactive : never
Account expires : never
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : 90
Number of days of warning before password