redhat.satellite.external_usergroup module – Manage External User Groups

Note

This module is part of the redhat.satellite collection (version 3.3.0).

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 redhat.satellite.

To use it in a playbook, specify: redhat.satellite.external_usergroup.

New in version 1.0.0: of redhat.satellite

Synopsis

  • Create, update, and delete external user groups

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

auth_source

aliases: auth_source_ldap

string / required

Name of the authentication source to be used for this group

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 SATELLITE_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 SATELLITE_SERVER_URL will be used instead.

state

string

State of the entity

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

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 SATELLITE_USERNAME will be used instead.

validate_certs

boolean

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 SATELLITE_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Examples

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

Description

entity

dictionary

Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.

Returned: success

external_usergroups

list / elements=dictionary

List of external usergroups.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Kirill Shirinkin (@Fodoj)