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theforeman.foreman.usergroup – Manage 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.usergroup.
New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman
Synopsis
- Create, update, and delete user groups
 
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- requests
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| admin
        
        boolean
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Whether or not the users in this group are administrators
         | 
     
| 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.
        | 
     |
| roles
        
        list / elements=string
         | 
      
        
        List of roles assigned to the group
         | 
     |
| 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
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        State of the entity
         | 
     
| updated_name
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        New user group name. When this parameter is set, the module will not be idempotent.
         | 
     |
| usergroups
        
        list / elements=string
         | 
      
        
        List of other groups assigned to the group
         | 
     |
| 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.
        | 
     |
| users
        
        list / elements=string
         | 
      
        
        List of users assigned to the group
         | 
     |
| 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  FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.
        | 
     
Examples
- name: Create a user group
  theforeman.foreman.usergroup:
    name: test
    admin: no
    roles:
      - Manager
    users:
      - myuser1
      - myuser2
    usergroups:
      - mynestedgroup
    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.
          | 
     |
| usergroups
        
        list / elements=dictionary
         | 
      success | 
        
        List of usergroups.
          | 
     |
Authors
- Baptiste Agasse (@bagasse)
 
© 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/usergroup_module.html