You should probably consider the |default feature in Jinja2 for fields you
don't want to define a value for, and as Adam said, specify the UUID.
This should take care of the above concerns.
{{ item.shell | default('/bin/sh') }}
etc
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:56 PM, hafizh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply but I think you guys are missing the point.
>
> The 'user' module I put is just a simple example showing the use cases. To
> make it clearer, it can be 'file' module where I just want to backup one
> file and not the rest, but using the same action for all.
> Also, I do follow the "Best Practice" and using roles, and hence the whole
> discussion because of the limited usability.
>
> @Michael DeHaan, I'm well aware of the use of 'when' but it makes your
> tasks tightly coupled with the 'trigger'. You need to cater for all the
> possibilites.
> It will just clutter the tasks. Say you need to create many users with the
> following requirement:
> - username, uid, and gid only
> - above + supplementary group only
> - above + custom shell only
> - above + different home only
> - above + etc...
>
> Then your 'when' condition will become a real sphegetti because Ansible is
> ran in sequence. (Try to make the 'when' logic for that and you will see).
> As far as i know they is no module to skip the subsequent tasks when a
> task is successfull. Off cause you can use 'when' to skip the subsequence
> but that will just make it even more complicated.
>
> Thanks.
>
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