Thanks Dick. I managed to get it working with the shell command. Im not sure is using the getent module, I would have been able to loop through it though. From what I read it seemed to lookup usernames and other data related to a particular key/user.
Thanks though. On Friday, 5 March 2021 at 19:06:58 UTC [email protected] wrote: > Did you look at > > https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/getent_module.html > > ? > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 18:20, danish09 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Using ansible 2.4.0 on controller. >> >> Remote is an ubuntu 14.04 LTS. >> >> Python 2.7 >> >> I am trying to cat through passwd file, awk the first column, register >> that into a variable and then create a compressed archive of a remote dir >> based on that username. >> >> I have read about using lookups, simple shell module, slurp but I cannot >> figure out how to do this on the remote host. >> >> Can you please help me out with this? >> >> Do let me know if you need any further information. >> >> Thanks >> >> Danish >> >> >> -- >> 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 view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/a028e9bb-4b45-4805-a17b-d1953b8fe13an%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/a028e9bb-4b45-4805-a17b-d1953b8fe13an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from a mobile device - please excuse the brevity, spelling and > punctuation. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/1d692f6c-8256-48a6-9068-62bfa3c47072n%40googlegroups.com.
