3.5. Ensuring the absence of users using Ansible playbooks

Procedure

1. Create an Ansible playbook file with the users whose absence from IdM you want to ensure. To simplify this step, you can copy and modify the example in the /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/freeipa/ansible_freeipa/playbooks/user/ensure-users-present.yml file. For example, to delete users idm_user_1, idm_user_2, and idm_user_3:

   ---
   - name: Playbook to handle users
     hosts: ipaserver
   
     vars_files:
     - /home/user_name/MyPlaybooks/secret.yml
     tasks:
     - name: Delete users idm_user_1, idm_user_2, idm_user_3
       freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipauser:
         ipaadmin_password: "{{ ipaadmin_password }}"
         users:
         - name: idm_user_1
         - name: idm_user_2
         - name: idm_user_3
         state: absent

2. Run the Ansible playbook. Specify the playbook file, the file storing the password protecting the secret.yml file, and the inventory file:

   $ ansible-playbook --vault-password-file=password_file -v -i path_to_inventory_directory/inventory.file path_to_playbooks_directory/delete-users.yml

1. Log into ipaserver as administrator:

   $ ssh administrator@server.idm.example.com
   Password:
   [admin@server /]$

2. Request information about idm_user_1:

   $ ipa user-show idm_user_1
   ipa: ERROR: idm_user_1: user not found

   The user named idm_user_1 does not exist in IdM.