Ansible User Commands

Create a user

---
- name: Playbook for creating users
 hosts: all

 tasks:
   - name: create user
     user: 
       name: robert
       home: /home/robert
       shell: /bin/bash

Add Password for User

 ---
 - name: Add or update user password
  hosts: all
 
  tasks:
  - name: Change robert password
    user: 
      name: robert
      update_password: always
      password: " {{ newpassword|password_hash('sha512') }} "

Run Playbook, the "newpassword is a variable which is used on the command to hold the password

ansible-playbook updatepassword.yml --extra-vars newpassword=outwater --private-key ~/.ssh/ansible