User management and roles-reuse

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I have a role that sets up “admin users”… On both FreeBSD and Ubuntu.

I would like to expand that role to use it for other users as needed.

Is there a way to over-ride the vars/main.yml file with a different list on a playbook by playbook bases?

So I can create one playbook per user and then limit to what server it is run against.

In summary…
Existing
Have a role that adds admins

Desired
Want to reuse the users role to add other users to specific machines using the users role.

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Yes, you can pass variables to roles.

Search for “parameterize” on this page - http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html#roles

Though I think you should move your vars to defaults/main.yml instead, if you are doing that – or even consider requiring the list to be passed each time.