# ansible hosts and user

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts-and-user/29619>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Created:** [February 5, 2019, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts-and-user/29619 "2019-02-05T10:28:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ryad9200000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@ryad9200000](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ryad9200000)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts-and-user/29619/1 "2019-02-05T10:28:16Z")

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Hy,

How to make that when one executes a playbook with a host parameter, ansible only recovers part of the host name as user.

Example:

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -l “hostuser1”

i want ansible to dynamically use user “user1”

if possible without script.

Thanks for answer guy !! 🙂

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**Author:** ![matburt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/matburt/32/3612_2.png) [@matburt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/matburt)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts-and-user/29619/2 "2019-02-05T13:51:28Z")

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