Role fact_regular_users

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Summary

Makes information available about regular users (excluding system process users) and groups.

Defines the following facts:

• fact_regular_users – list of dicts containing user info about regular users.
• fact_co_groups – dict with group names from the CO as keys, and lists of usernames in those groups as values.
• fact_src_ansible_venv – string path to the python environment currently being used by Ansible. Can be used to install additional pip dependencies for Ansible modules into the correct environment. Empty string if Ansible is not using a virtual environment (but instead the global system python environment).

Requires

Linux flavor operating system.

Description

The role sets the Ansible variable fact_regular_users to a list of users. Information from /etc/cpasswd is filtered on: 1) userid >= 1000 and 2) user has a home directory located underneath /home/

The fact fact_co_groups is filled with the members of the unix groups listed in /etc/rsc/managedgroups, which are the groups corresponding to roles defined for the CO in SRAM.

Variables

The variable fact_regular_users and fact_co_groups are filled. Examples:

fact_regular_users:

[
  {
    user: "foo", 
    userid: 1000, 
    groupid: 1000, 
    home: "/home/foo", 
    shell: "/bin/bash",
    description: "sample user foo"
  }  
]

fact_co_groups:

"fact_co_groups": {
    "@all": [
        "user1",
        "user2"
    ],
    "rsc_developers": [
        "user1",
        "user2"
    ],
    "src_co_admin": [
        "user1",
        "user2"
    ],
    "src_co_developer": [
        "user1",
        "user2"
    ],
    "src_co_wallet": [
        "user1",
        "user2"
    ],
    "src_developers": [
        "user1",
        "user2"
    ],
    "src_ws_admin": [
        "user1",
        "user2"
    ]
}

See also

Role runonce.

History

2021 Written by Ton Smeele (Utrecht University)

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