User add playbook question - something is wrong and I don't know what

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I have a playbook, the task consistently flags one user as ‘ok’ and one user as ‘changed’.

See this gist: https://gist.github.com/bdunbar/ec35fb02d4147ad1f5b5

Why is this? Clearly the user already exists, so it should be ‘ok’ and not ‘changed’.

I’m doing something wrong, and I’d like to know what that is.

Thanks!

~brian

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How are the systems different?

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I’m running the playbook against the same host, ‘sftp’ each time.

‘aws-stage-sftp’ is Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

inventory.yml

(snip)
aws-stage-sftp ansible_ssh_host=11.11.11.11

(snip)

[sftp]
aws-stage-sftp

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Just a guess, but since both users are pointing at the same home dir, but have different UID/GIDs, is it possible that ansible is chowning ‘/home/sftp’ ? Although if that were the case, I’d expect both the tasks in subsequent runs to report as ‘changed’…

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Bar the chowning, that makes sense. They both have the same homedir because they’re jailed ‘demi-root’ users.

I should probably did into the users module in the code and see what it’s actually doing in there.