Remove user account — Ansible module user

How to remove an example user removing home directory and spool files.

How to remove 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 remove 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.

This module uses Linux distributions `userdel` to delete, on FreeBSD, this module uses `pw userdel`, on macOS, this module uses `dscl`.

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

Main Parameters

• name string — username
• state string — present/absent