Change the User Primary Group on Linux — Ansible module user

How to automate the changing of the primary group of a user “example” from “example” group to “users” group on a target the Linux with few lines of Ansible playbook code.

How to Change the User Primary Group on Linux with Ansible?

I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.

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

Ansible changes the User Primary Group on Linux

• `ansible.builtin.user`
• Manage user accounts

Today we’re talking about Ansible module `user`.

The full name is ansible.builtin.user, which means that is part of the collection of modules “builtin” with ansible and shipped with it.

It’s a module pretty stable and out for years, it manages user accounts.

It supports a huge variety of Linux distributions, SunOS and macOS, and FreeBSD.