On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 14:20, dulhaver via Ansible Project <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have targets who have set a user pw to expire and I want to switch the > expiration off with `sudo chage -l stepuser`. > > this seems to work with a task like this: > > - name: switch off pw expiration for stepuser > shell: > cmd: chage -M -1 stepuser > become: yes > > Beind quite new to ansible I am wondering whether this is the right approach > for such or anything else would be more suitable way (I can not identify any > convincing paramter in the user module though)?
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/user_module.html#parameter-expires is pretty convincing to me. See the 3rd last example on that page: - name: Starting at Ansible 2.6, modify user, remove expiry time ansible.builtin.user: name: james18 expires: -1 -- Dick Visser Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager GÉANT -- 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/CAL8fbwO0VV7NNBNfoxDJdFi2_68-%2BmiRW_32JuiVUMkP2c7Xmg%40mail.gmail.com.
