the missing underscores appear to have been whacked during copy/paste
somehow. The gid/git typo was my fault. I didn't want to use lists
though, as I plan on applying this to about 60 different servers. I wanted
it to be intuitive enough to make the proper changes for the proper server.
On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 12:54:59 PM UTC-6, Nick Rogers wrote:
>
> You may not need to use the getent module at all - the group module
> already uses groupmod if the group already exists.
>
> If you want to use getent, then it looks like you are missing '_'
> characters in the "when" conditions. They should be
> when: getent_passwd ...
> and
> when: getent_group ...
> respectively. And there's a typo in your last call to the group module,
> "git" should be "gid".
>
> You could move the items list into host_vars and then iterate just the
> groups the host needs, you can have the items list in group_vars that need
> the groups on the systems, there are lots of ways to partition that up.
>
> On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 12:38:17 PM UTC-5, John Harmon wrote:
>>
>> How would you approach modifying the gid of a group on a server only if
>> it exists? I know I can do this for 3 groups within 3 separate tasks (as
>> an example), but I was hoping to combine them into a single task (see last
>> task below.....). The problem with my current setup is that it may create
>> an unnecessary group (ie. server1 needs gomer, server2 needs pyle. As I
>> search for a group gomer, or pyle, then both servers would get both groups,
>> which isn't desirable). Do I have to break this out in multiple tasks? or
>> is there another way? I haven't tested the following yet.
>>
>> - name: Gather User Information
>> getent:
>> database: passwd
>>
>> - name: Gather Group Information
>> getent:
>> database: group
>>
>> - name: Create common group when gomer or pyle user present
>> group:
>> name: army
>> gid: 2003
>> state: present
>> when: getent passwd | lower | search("gomer|pyle)"
>>
>> - name: Modify Group GIDs if Group is Present
>> group:
>> name: "{{ item.name }}"
>> git: "{{ item.gid }}"
>> with_items:
>> - {name: "gomer", gid: "2000"}
>> - {name: "pyle", gid: "2001"}
>> when: getent group | lower | search("gomer|pyle)"
>>
>>
>>
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