Hello,
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 2:30 PM Edison Wang <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I am pretty new in this domain and got a question to ask. My goal is to
> create a new user "edison" on a Ubuntu server. Now I've already had a user
> "manager" which is able to ssh to this Ubuntu server. This problem I got is
> after I run user creation role with user "manager" as ansbile_user, the new
> user "edison" always failed to be created. Role is very simple, my question
> is if this issue would be caused by ansible_user "manager" that doesn't
> have some privilege?
>
> role:
>
> ---
> - name: manage-user - Manage user account
> user:
> name: "{{ user.username }}"
> comment: "{{ user.name }}"
> shell: "/bin/bash"
> groups:
> - sudo
>
The manager user is not root, so is not able to create users. You should add
become: true
to your task, so the user module is executed with elevated privileges.
Check out this:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/become.html
Luca
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