user management

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).

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?

Remove a local group on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_group

March 21, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, group, module, user management, accounting, authorization, authentication, windows

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

Create Local Groups on Windows with Ansible Playbooks

March 18, 2022
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, group, module, user management, accounting, authorization, authentication, windows

How to Create a local group 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?

Delete a group - Ansible module group

October 27, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, group, module, user management, accounting, authorization, authentication, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE

How to delete a group in Linux with Ansible? I’m going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.

Ansible Group Module Demo: Create User Groups Easily

October 22, 2021
Posted by Luca Berton
ansible, group, module, user management, accounting, authorization, authentication, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE

How to create a group in Linux with Ansible? I’m going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code.

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.