community.mysql.mysql_user – Adds or removes a user from a MySQL database
Note
This plugin is part of the community.mysql collection (version 2.3.1).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible
package. It is not included in ansible-core
. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list
.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.mysql
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.mysql.mysql_user
.
Synopsis
- Adds or removes a user from a MySQL database.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- PyMySQL (Python 2.7 and Python 3.X), or
- MySQLdb (Python 2.x)
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
---|---|---|
append_privs boolean |
| Append the privileges defined by priv to the existing ones for this user instead of overwriting existing ones. |
ca_cert path | The path to a Certificate Authority (CA) certificate. This option, if used, must specify the same certificate as used by the server. aliases: ssl_ca | |
check_hostname boolean added in 1.1.0 of community.mysql |
| Whether to validate the server host name when an SSL connection is required. Corresponds to MySQL CLIs --ssl switch.Setting this to false disables hostname verification. Use with caution.Requires pymysql >= 0.7.11. This option has no effect on MySQLdb. |
check_implicit_admin boolean |
| Check if mysql allows login as root/nopassword before trying supplied credentials. If success, passed login_user/login_password will be ignored. |
client_cert path | The path to a client public key certificate. aliases: ssl_cert | |
client_key path | The path to the client private key. aliases: ssl_key | |
config_file path | Default: "~/.my.cnf" | Specify a config file from which user and password are to be read. |
connect_timeout integer | Default: 30 | The connection timeout when connecting to the MySQL server. |
encrypted boolean |
| Indicate that the 'password' field is a `mysql_native_password` hash. |
host string | Default: "localhost" | The 'host' part of the MySQL username. |
host_all boolean |
| Override the host option, making ansible apply changes to all hostnames for a given user. This option cannot be used when creating users. |
login_host string | Default: "localhost" | Host running the database. In some cases for local connections the login_unix_socket=/path/to/mysqld/socket, that is usually /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock , needs to be used instead of login_host=localhost. |
login_password string | The password used to authenticate with. | |
login_port integer | Default: 3306 | Port of the MySQL server. Requires login_host be defined as other than localhost if login_port is used. |
login_unix_socket string | The path to a Unix domain socket for local connections. | |
login_user string | The username used to authenticate with. | |
name string / required | Name of the user (role) to add or remove. | |
password string | Set the user's password. | |
plugin string added in 0.1.0 of community.mysql | User's plugin to authenticate (``CREATE USER user IDENTIFIED WITH plugin``). | |
plugin_auth_string string added in 0.1.0 of community.mysql | User's plugin auth_string (``CREATE USER user IDENTIFIED WITH plugin BY plugin_auth_string``). | |
plugin_hash_string string added in 0.1.0 of community.mysql | User's plugin hash string (``CREATE USER user IDENTIFIED WITH plugin AS plugin_hash_string``). | |
priv raw | MySQL privileges string in the format: db.table:priv1,priv2 .Multiple privileges can be specified by separating each one using a forward slash: db.table:priv/db.table:priv .The format is based on MySQL GRANT statement.Database and table names can be quoted, MySQL-style. If column privileges are used, the priv1,priv2 part must be exactly as returned by a SHOW GRANT statement. If not followed, the module will always report changes. It includes grouping columns by permission (SELECT(col1,col2 ) instead of SELECT(col1 ,SELECT(col2))).Can be passed as a dictionary (see the examples). Supports GRANTs for procedures and functions (see the examples). | |
resource_limits dictionary added in 0.1.0 of community.mysql | Limit the user for certain server resources. Provided since MySQL 5.6 / MariaDB 10.2. Available options are MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR: num , MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR: num , MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR: num , MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS: num .Used when state=present, ignored otherwise. | |
sql_log_bin boolean |
| Whether binary logging should be enabled or disabled for the connection. |
state string |
| Whether the user should exist. When absent , removes the user. |
tls_requires dictionary added in 1.0.0 of community.mysql | Set requirement for secure transport as a dictionary of requirements (see the examples). Valid requirements are SSL, X509, SUBJECT, ISSUER, CIPHER. SUBJECT, ISSUER and CIPHER are complementary, and mutually exclusive with SSL and X509. | |
update_password string |
| always will update passwords if they differ.on_create will only set the password for newly created users. |
Notes
Note
- MySQL server installs with default login_user of
root
and no password. To secure this user as part of an idempotent playbook, you must create at least two tasks: 1) change the root user’s password, without providing any login_user/login_password details, 2) drop a~/.my.cnf
file containing the new root credentials. Subsequent runs of the playbook will then succeed by reading the new credentials from the file. - Currently, there is only support for the
mysql_native_password
encrypted password hash module. - Supports (check_mode).
- Requires the PyMySQL (Python 2.7 and Python 3.X) or MySQL-python (Python 2.X) package installed on the remote host. The Python package may be installed with apt-get install python-pymysql (Ubuntu; see ansible.builtin.apt) or yum install python2-PyMySQL (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora; see ansible.builtin.yum). You can also use dnf install python2-PyMySQL for newer versions of Fedora; see ansible.builtin.dnf.
- Be sure you have PyMySQL or MySQLdb library installed on the target machine for the Python interpreter Ansible uses, for example, if it is Python 3, you must install the library for Python 3. You can also change the interpreter. For more information, see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html.
- Both
login_password
andlogin_user
are required when you are passing credentials. If none are present, the module will attempt to read the credentials from~/.my.cnf
, and finally fall back to using the MySQL default login of ‘root’ with no password. - If there are problems with local connections, using login_unix_socket=/path/to/mysqld/socket instead of login_host=localhost might help. As an example, the default MariaDB installation of version 10.4 and later uses the unix_socket authentication plugin by default that without using login_unix_socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock (the default path) causes the error
Host '127.0.0.1' is not allowed to connect to this MariaDB server
. - Alternatively, you can use the mysqlclient library instead of MySQL-python (MySQLdb) which supports both Python 2.X and Python >=3.5. See https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient/ how to install it.
See Also
See also
- community.mysql.mysql_info
-
The official documentation on the community.mysql.mysql_info module.
- MySQL access control and account management reference
-
Complete reference of the MySQL access control and account management documentation.
- MySQL provided privileges reference
-
Complete reference of the MySQL provided privileges documentation.
Examples
- name: Removes anonymous user account for localhost community.mysql.mysql_user: name: '' host: localhost state: absent - name: Removes all anonymous user accounts community.mysql.mysql_user: name: '' host_all: yes state: absent - name: Create database user with name 'bob' and password '12345' with all database privileges community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob password: 12345 priv: '*.*:ALL' state: present - name: Create database user using hashed password with all database privileges community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob password: '*EE0D72C1085C46C5278932678FBE2C6A782821B4' encrypted: yes priv: '*.*:ALL' state: present - name: Create database user with password and all database privileges and 'WITH GRANT OPTION' community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob password: 12345 priv: '*.*:ALL,GRANT' state: present - name: Create user with password, all database privileges and 'WITH GRANT OPTION' in db1 and db2 community.mysql.mysql_user: state: present name: bob password: 12345dd priv: 'db1.*': 'ALL,GRANT' 'db2.*': 'ALL,GRANT' # Use 'PROCEDURE' instead of 'FUNCTION' to apply GRANTs for a MySQL procedure instead. - name: Grant a user the right to execute a function community.mysql.mysql_user: name: readonly password: 12345 priv: FUNCTION my_db.my_function: EXECUTE state: present # Note that REQUIRESSL is a special privilege that should only apply to *.* by itself. # Setting this privilege in this manner is deprecated. # Use 'tls_requires' instead. - name: Modify user to require SSL connections community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob append_privs: yes priv: '*.*:REQUIRESSL' state: present - name: Modify user to require TLS connection with a valid client certificate community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob tls_requires: x509: state: present - name: Modify user to require TLS connection with a specific client certificate and cipher community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob tls_requires: subject: '/CN=alice/O=MyDom, Inc./C=US/ST=Oregon/L=Portland' cipher: 'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384' - name: Modify user to no longer require SSL community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob tls_requires: - name: Ensure no user named 'sally'@'localhost' exists, also passing in the auth credentials community.mysql.mysql_user: login_user: root login_password: 123456 name: sally state: absent # check_implicit_admin example - name: > Ensure no user named 'sally'@'localhost' exists, also passing in the auth credentials. If mysql allows root/nopassword login, try it without the credentials first. If it's not allowed, pass the credentials community.mysql.mysql_user: check_implicit_admin: yes login_user: root login_password: 123456 name: sally state: absent - name: Ensure no user named 'sally' exists at all community.mysql.mysql_user: name: sally host_all: yes state: absent - name: Specify grants composed of more than one word community.mysql.mysql_user: name: replication password: 12345 priv: "*.*:REPLICATION CLIENT" state: present - name: Revoke all privileges for user 'bob' and password '12345' community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob password: 12345 priv: "*.*:USAGE" state: present # Example privileges string format # mydb.*:INSERT,UPDATE/anotherdb.*:SELECT/yetanotherdb.*:ALL - name: Example using login_unix_socket to connect to server community.mysql.mysql_user: name: root password: abc123 login_unix_socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock - name: Example of skipping binary logging while adding user 'bob' community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob password: 12345 priv: "*.*:USAGE" state: present sql_log_bin: no - name: Create user 'bob' authenticated with plugin 'AWSAuthenticationPlugin' community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob plugin: AWSAuthenticationPlugin plugin_hash_string: RDS priv: '*.*:ALL' state: present - name: Limit bob's resources to 10 queries per hour and 5 connections per hour community.mysql.mysql_user: name: bob resource_limits: MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR: 10 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR: 5 # Example .my.cnf file for setting the root password # [client] # user=root # password=n<_665{vS43y
Authors
- Jonathan Mainguy (@Jmainguy)
- Benjamin Malynovytch (@bmalynovytch)
- Lukasz Tomaszkiewicz (@tomaszkiewicz)
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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