# User module always reports changed when using 'groups'

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-module-always-reports-changed-when-using-groups/15702>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** aap\
**Created:** [July 18, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-module-always-reports-changed-when-using-groups/15702 "2014-07-18T09:13:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Nico\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@Nico\_K](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nico_K)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-module-always-reports-changed-when-using-groups/15702/1 "2014-07-18T09:13:30Z")

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Hi,

Looks like I’ve run into a bug:

- name: create users  
user: name=“{{ item.owner|default(item.name) }}” group=“{{item.group|default(item.name)}}” groups=“aap”  
with\_items:
- “{{ user\_list }}”

Will always report ‘changed’, if I take out the ‘groups’ it works as expected.

Regards,  
Nico

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**Author:** ![Nico\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@Nico\_K](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nico_K)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-module-always-reports-changed-when-using-groups/15702/2 "2014-07-18T09:16:22Z")

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Minor addition:

This only happens if the ‘groups’ content is the same as ‘group’.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-module-always-reports-changed-when-using-groups/15702/3 "2014-07-18T11:48:45Z")

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This is already a known thing: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/6854](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/6854)