Disable user account — Ansible module user

How to disable an “example” user in Linux by locking the password and setting the special “nologin” shell without login possibility.

How to disable a user account 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 disable user account

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_lock boolean — no/yes