theforeman.foreman.external_usergroup – Manage External User Groups

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.2.0).

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 theforeman.foreman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.external_usergroup.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Create, update, and delete external user groups

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

requests

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
auth_source string / required		Name of the authentication source to be used for this group aliases: auth_source_ldap
name string / required		Name of the group
password string / required		Password of the user accessing the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `FOREMAN_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
server_url string / required		URL of the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `FOREMAN_SERVER_URL` will be used instead.
state string	Choices: present ← absent	State of the entity
usergroup string / required		Name of the linked usergroup
username string / required		Username accessing the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `FOREMAN_USERNAME` will be used instead.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes ←	Whether or not to verify the TLS certificates of the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS` will be used instead.

Examples

- name: Create an external user group
  theforeman.foreman.external_usergroup:
    name: test
    auth_source: "My LDAP server"
    usergroup: "Internal Usergroup"
    state: present
- name: Link a group from FreeIPA
  theforeman.foreman.external_usergroup:
    name: ipa_users
    auth_source: "External"
    usergroup: "Internal Usergroup"
    state: present

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key		Returned	Description
entity dictionary		success	Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.
	external_usergroups list / elements=dictionary	success	List of external usergroups.

Authors

Kirill Shirinkin (@Fodoj)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/theforeman/foreman/external_usergroup_module.html