From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 3 Managing Systems with Ansible
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Modules related to user management
From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 3 Managing Systems with Ansible
Modules related to user management
- [Instructor] Operating systems are not that useful without users. Managing users with Ansible, is fairly straightforward. For most systems, we can manage users using the Ansible user module. To manage groups on Linux and Unix hosts, use the group module. If your managed host is Windows, you'll want to use the win_user module, and to manage groups on Windows, use the win_group module. To manage group membership on Windows, use the win_group_membership module. Although you can manage users on Mac OS X 10 using the user module, you may want to use the osx_defaults module to manage Mac OS user defaults. There are many specific modules for managing user accounts on network devices as well. For instance, for a Big IP devices, use bigip_user. For Huawei CloudEngine switches, use esce_snmp_user. And there's modules for Lenovo CNOS devices as well. EOS devices, use eos_user, and for Cisco iOS devices, use iOS_user, as…
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