Ansible troubleshooting — user module password_expiry_min bug and workaround

How to reproduce the `password_expiry_min` bug of the module user, triage, read the GitHub report, and workaround!

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about the user module bug and possible workaround.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot

Demo

The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live demo to show you practically the user module bug triage and possible workaround!

Reproducer

• userbug_error.yml

---
- name: user module demo
  hosts: all
  become: true
  vars:
    myuser: "example"
  tasks:
    - name: password expiration
      ansible.builtin.user:
        name: "{{ myuser }}"
        password_expire_min: 7
        password_expire_max: 90

execution

$ ansible-playbook -i demo/inventory troubleshooting/userbug_error.yml.yml
PLAY [user module demo]…