User creation problem

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Hi,
I’m having some troubles creating a user on a Debian host, using ansible 1.2.
This is my action:
action: user name=erlang comment=“Delibird user” group=staff shell=/bin/false createhome=no

action: user name=erlang groups=sudo

And this is the debug output:

TASK: [Create erlang user account] ********************************************
REMOTE_MODULE user name=erlang groups=sudo
changed: [travis] => {“changed”: true, “comment”: “”, “createhome”: true, “group”: 1004, “groups”: “sudo”, “home”: “/home/erlang”, “item”: “”, “name”: “erlang”, “shell”: “/bin/sh”, “state”: “present”, “stderr”: “useradd: warning: the home directory already exists.\nNot copying any file from skel directory into it.\n”, “system”: false, “uid”: 1001}

Why are my settings almost completely ignored? I mean, it’s trying to create a home directory, wrong default shell and it also ignore the default group setting.

Thanks,
Carlo

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So it looks like you have two action lines in your playbook, which is going to only do the last one since you are specifying a YAML hash.

I imagine you have it like this?

  • action: user …
    action: user …

In which case you want this:

  • action: user …
  • action: user …
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Bullseye :slight_smile:
Thanks,
Carlo