Creating users is a very trivial task that requires time, especially if there is not a Active Directory mechanism integrated with the Linux servers. In order to make your life easier as an administrator you can run the below playbook that will create users based on a list and add them sudo capabilities.
Task 1
creates the users that have been specified on the loop section.
Task 2
creates the appropriate sudoers file
1 ---
2 - name: create sudoers users based on request
3 hosts: localhost
4 become: true
5 tasks:
6 - name: create users based on a list
7 user:
8 name: "{{ item }}"
9 password: "{{ '#Passw0rd#' | password_hash('sha512') }}"
10 shell: /bin/bash
11 loop:
12 - user1
13 - user2
14
15 - name: create sudoers file for user
16 copy:
17 content: '{{ item }} ALL = (ALL) ALL'
18 dest: "/etc/sudoers.d/{{item}}"
19 loop:
20 - user1
21 - user2
Run the playbook and verify that the password is correct and user has sudo capabilities.
ansible-playbook createusers.yml
