The user module has a flag to create the homedir.
In any case, manually executing SSH with ansible is weird, and not
something I'd want to see in most playbooks, Toshio here I think was
proposing this for a debugging case, but don't do this :)
You could of course simply execute the whoami with the shell module like
so, if you wanted:
- hosts: all
user: username
tasks:
- shell: whoami
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]>
wrote:
> There are some ansible config values that can control where the
> ControlPath file is created and the remote temporary path but overall
> it may be easier to use the shell module on localhost for this
>
> - hosts: all
> vars:
> - new_username: badger
> gather_facts: no
> tasks:
> - name: Auto generate user home directory
> command: ssh {{ new_username }}@{{ inventory_hostname }}
> /usr//bin/whoami
> delegate_to: localhost
>
>
> Note that the above playbook assumes that your inventory_hostnames are
> all resolvable to real hostnames. If that's not the case you may need
> to make some modifications (for instance, create a group in the
> inventory that contains the resolvable hostnames of the machines
> you're interested in and use that group in the hosts: field)
>
> -Toshio
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:09 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have a virtual machine that when first login as a user, it will create
> the
> > home directory for the user if it doesn't have one.
> >
> > So just sth like,
> > $ ssh username@myhostname
> > $ Creating directory '/home/username'.
> >
> > How could I use Ansible to do that(just login in order to generate a home
> > directory)?
> >
> > I tried this in playbook:
> > ---
> > - hosts: all
> > gather_facts: no
> > remote_user: theusername
> > tasks:
> > - name: Auto generate user home directory
> > shell: /usr/bin/whoami
> >
> > It threw an exception saying "ControlPath too long". But when I do the
> same
> > thing with a user that has a home directory in the machine, it will
> succeed.
> > The control path is:
> >
> 'ControlPath=/net/myhostname/userhome/myusername/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r'
> >
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