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Automate Linux User Management with Ansible: A Comprehensive Guide

April 26, 2023
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, user, module, linux, user management, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, useradd, ansible user

Automating your Linux user management (local user and group) with Ansible enables you to achieve Infrastructure As Code (IaC).

Change Windows User Passwords with Ansible

March 24, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, user, module, user management, accounting, authorization, authentication, windows, local

How to change user passwords on Windows-like systems with Ansible? Password change is a mundane task that every System Administrator needs to perform regularly for your user base.

Remove a local user on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_user

March 23, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, user, module, user management, accounting, authorization, authentication, windows

How to Remove a local user on Windows-like systems with Ansible?

Create Local User Accounts on Windows with Ansible Playbooks

March 22, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, user, module, user management, accounting, authorization, authentication, windows

How to Create a local user on Windows-like systems with Ansible?

Change the User Primary Group on Linux with Ansible

December 15, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, user, module, linux, user management, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, getent passwd

How to Change the User Primary Group on Linux with Ansible?

Add Secondary Groups to Linux Users with Ansible Playbook

December 14, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, user, module, linux, user management, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, useradd

How to add a user to a second group on Linux with Ansible?

User password expiration - Ansible module user

November 9, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, password, linux, accounting, authorization, authentication, user management, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, ansible module user

How to set user password expiration time on Linux with Ansible?

Changing User Passwords on Linux Systems with Ansible

October 7, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, user, module, linux, user management, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, passwd

Introduction In today’s episode of Ansible Pilot, I’m Luca Berton, and we’ll be delving into the process of changing a user password on a Linux system using Ansible.

Enable user account - Ansible module user

October 4, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, user, module, linux, user management

How to Enable a user account with Ansible? I’m going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.

Disable user account - Ansible module user

September 30, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, user, module, linux

How to disable a user account with Ansible? I’m going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.

Remove user account - Ansible module user

September 1, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, delete, linux, accounting, authorization, authentication, user management

How to remove a user account with Ansible? I’m going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.

Create user account - Ansible module user

August 26, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, create, linux, accounting, authorization, authentication, user management, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, ansible module user

How to create a user account with Ansible? I’m going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.