Try Spottermanage user files for basic authentication
| "added in version" 1.3 of ansible.builtin"
Authors: Ansible Core Team
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pipInstall with pip install ansible==2.9.27
Add and remove username/password entries in a password file using htpasswd.
This is used by web servers such as Apache and Nginx for basic authentication.
# Add a user to a password file and ensure permissions are set
- htpasswd:
path: /etc/nginx/passwdfile
name: janedoe
password: '9s36?;fyNp'
owner: root
group: www-data
mode: 0640
# Remove a user from a password file
- htpasswd:
path: /etc/apache2/passwdfile
name: foobar
state: absent
# Add a user to a password file suitable for use by libpam-pwdfile
- htpasswd:
path: /etc/mail/passwords
name: alex
password: oedu2eGh
crypt_scheme: md5_crypt
mode:
description:
- The permissions the resulting filesystem object should have.
- For those used to I(/usr/bin/chmod) remember that modes are actually octal numbers.
You must give Ansible enough information to parse them correctly. For consistent
results, quote octal numbers (for example, V('644') or V('1777')) so Ansible receives
a string and can do its own conversion from string into number. Adding a leading
zero (for example, V(0755)) works sometimes, but can fail in loops and some other
circumstances.
- Giving Ansible a number without following either of these rules will end up with
a decimal number which will have unexpected results.
- As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, V(u+rwx)
or V(u=rw,g=r,o=r)).
- If O(mode) is not specified and the destination filesystem object B(does not) exist,
the default C(umask) on the system will be used when setting the mode for the newly
created filesystem object.
- If O(mode) is not specified and the destination filesystem object B(does) exist,
the mode of the existing filesystem object will be used.
- Specifying O(mode) is the best way to ensure filesystem objects are created with
the correct permissions. See CVE-2020-1736 for further details.
type: raw
name:
aliases:
- username
description:
- User name to add or remove
required: true
path:
aliases:
- dest
- destfile
description:
- Path to the file that contains the usernames and passwords
required: true
group:
description:
- Name of the group that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to I(chown).
- When left unspecified, it uses the current group of the current user unless you
are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership.
type: str
owner:
description:
- Name of the user that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to I(chown).
- When left unspecified, it uses the current user unless you are root, in which case
it can preserve the previous ownership.
- Specifying a numeric username will be assumed to be a user ID and not a username.
Avoid numeric usernames to avoid this confusion.
type: str
state:
choices:
- present
- absent
default: present
description:
- Whether the user entry should be present or not
required: false
create:
default: 'yes'
description:
- Used with C(state=present). If specified, the file will be created if it does not
already exist. If set to "no", will fail if the file does not exist
required: false
type: bool
serole:
description:
- The role part of the SELinux filesystem object context.
- When set to V(_default), it will use the C(role) portion of the policy if available.
type: str
setype:
description:
- The type part of the SELinux filesystem object context.
- When set to V(_default), it will use the C(type) portion of the policy if available.
type: str
seuser:
description:
- The user part of the SELinux filesystem object context.
- By default it uses the V(system) policy, where applicable.
- When set to V(_default), it will use the C(user) portion of the policy if available.
type: str
selevel:
description:
- The level part of the SELinux filesystem object context.
- This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the C(range).
- When set to V(_default), it will use the C(level) portion of the policy if available.
type: str
password:
description:
- Password associated with user.
- Must be specified if user does not exist yet.
required: false
attributes:
aliases:
- attr
description:
- The attributes the resulting filesystem object should have.
- To get supported flags look at the man page for I(chattr) on the target system.
- This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed
by I(lsattr).
- The C(=) operator is assumed as default, otherwise C(+) or C(-) operators need to
be included in the string.
type: str
version_added: '2.3'
version_added_collection: ansible.builtin
crypt_scheme:
choices:
- apr_md5_crypt
- des_crypt
- ldap_sha1
- plaintext
default: apr_md5_crypt
description:
- Encryption scheme to be used. As well as the four choices listed here, you can
also use any other hash supported by passlib, such as md5_crypt and sha256_crypt,
which are linux passwd hashes. If you do so the password file will not be compatible
with Apache or Nginx
required: false
unsafe_writes:
default: false
description:
- Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent
reads from the target filesystem object.
- By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent
reads from the target filesystem objects, but sometimes systems are configured or
just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted filesystem
objects, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only
be written in an unsafe manner.
- This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating filesystem
objects when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform
unsafe writes).
- IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption.
type: bool
version_added: '2.2'
version_added_collection: ansible.builtin