Change user password — Ansible module user

How to write an Ansible Playbook to assign the password “password” to an “example” user account in a Linux system with SHA512 encryption.

How to change a user password 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 change user password

Today we’re talking about the 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.

For Windows, use the `ansible.windows.win_user` module instead.

Parameters

• name string — username
• state string — present/absent
• password string — Linux encrypted, macOS cleartext