ansible.builtin.vertica_user (v2.9.27) — module

Install Ansible via pip

Install with pip install ansible==2.9.27

Description

Adds or removes Vertica database user and, optionally, assigns roles.

A user will not be removed until all the dependencies have been dropped.

In such a situation, if the module tries to remove the user it will fail and only remove roles granted to the user.

Requirements

• unixODBC
• pyodbc

Usage examples

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- name: creating a new vertica user with password
  vertica_user: name=user_name password=md5<encrypted_password> db=db_name state=present

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- name: creating a new vertica user authenticated via ldap with roles assigned
  vertica_user:
    name=user_name
    ldap=true
    db=db_name
    roles=schema_name_ro
    state=present

Inputs

    
db:
    description:
    - Name of the Vertica database.

ldap:
    description:
    - Set to true if users are authenticated via LDAP.
    - The user will be created with password expired and set to I($ldap$).
    type: bool

name:
    description:
    - Name of the user to add or remove.
    required: true

port:
    default: 5433
    description:
    - Vertica cluster port to connect to.

roles:
    aliases:
    - role
    description:
    - Comma separated list of roles to assign to the user.

state:
    choices:
    - present
    - absent
    - locked
    default: present
    description:
    - Whether to create C(present), drop C(absent) or lock C(locked) a user.

cluster:
    default: localhost
    description:
    - Name of the Vertica cluster.

expired:
    description:
    - Sets the user's password expiration.
    type: bool

profile:
    description:
    - Sets the user's profile.

password:
    description:
    - The user's password encrypted by the MD5 algorithm.
    - The password must be generated with the format C("md5" + md5[password + username]),
      resulting in a total of 35 characters. An easy way to do this is by querying the
      Vertica database with select 'md5'||md5('<user_password><user_name>').

login_user:
    default: dbadmin
    description:
    - The username used to authenticate with.

resource_pool:
    description:
    - Sets the user's resource pool.

login_password:
    description:
    - The password used to authenticate with.