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How to Change a User Password with Ansible

November 22, 2023
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, user, module, linux, user management, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, passwd

How to Change a User Password with Ansible Welcome to another episode of Ansible Pilot!

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).

Configure PostgreSQL with Ansible: User Access and Service Management

June 9, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, database, module, postgresql_user, authentication, PostgreSQL, user, role, md5

How to Allow md5 Connection for a PostgreSQL User / Role with Ansible?

Create PostgreSQL Users/Roles with Ansible: A Simple Guide

June 9, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, database, module, postgresql_user, create, PostgreSQL, user, role

How to Create a PostgreSQL User / Role with Ansible? I’m going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.

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?

Configuring Windows Hosts for Ansible: Step-by-Step Guide

March 7, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, configure, windows, user, playbook, windows 10, ansible for windows, ansible winrm

How to configure a Windows Host for Ansible? I’ll show you step by step on a freshly installed machine how to configure a “basic” authentication, use a Local Accounts for authentication and successfully execute a simple “win_ping” Ansible Playbook.

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?

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.

Ansible troubleshooting - passwordless account

October 5, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, troubleshooting, password, accounting, user, error, fatal, account

Introduction Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting and specifically about the “Fatal usermod: unlocking the user’s password would result in a passwordless account.

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.