Hi list, Sorry for the probably confusing subject, but I don’t really know how to say that better, I’ll try to explain better:
In my environment I have a requirement to remove certain local groups ( that have now been moved to remote groups ) and found out the behaviour of the module is quite strange. So what happens is: I try to remove the “support” group, which as said was a local group, and is now a remote group managed by LDAP: - group: name=support state=absent What I get back from this is an error from groupdel: groupdel: cannot remove entry 'support' from /etc/group Which I believe to be wrong as if the group does not exist in /etc/group the module should just return OK. Digging into the module code I found why this is happening ( I’m using ansible v1.9 ): group calls group_exists: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/stable-1.9/system/group.py#L413 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/stable-1.9/system/group.py#L413> defined here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/stable-1.9/system/group.py#L128 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/stable-1.9/system/group.py#L128> grp.getgrnam(’support') will return the remote group data, so group_exists returns True, hence the module runs groupdel which in turn fails as it doesn’t find the group in /etc/groups. I have found out that grp.getgrall() only returns with local groups, so I worked around that problem this way: http://fpaste.org/268435/97803144/ <http://fpaste.org/268435/97803144/> I don’t know if that can be considered a good way of handling that error, and I really don’t know if it makes sense to have that added to the upstream module. It worked for me so I thought it would be good to share ;) Thanks, Andrea -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/502173F8-28DA-4AF5-9648-ABF134BDC0C3%40andreatartaglia.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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