第 21 章 Using Ansible playbooks to manage self-service rules in IdM


This section introduces self-service rules in Identity Management (IdM) and describes how to create and edit self-service access rules using Ansible playbooks. Self-service access control rules allow an IdM entity to perform specified operations on its IdM Directory Server entry.

The following procedure describes how to use an Ansible playbook to define self-service rules and ensure their presence on an Identity Management (IdM) server. In this example, the new Users can manage their own name details rule grants users the ability to change their own givenname, displayname, title and initials attributes. This allows them to, for example, change their display name or initials if they want to.

Prerequisites

  • On the control node:

    • You are using Ansible version 2.15 or later.
    • You have installed the ansible-freeipa package.
    • The example assumes that in the ~/MyPlaybooks/ directory, you have created an Ansible inventory file with the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of the IdM server.
    • The example assumes that the secret.yml Ansible vault stores your ipaadmin_password and that you have access to a file that stores the password protecting the secret.yml file.
  • The target node, that is the node on which the freeipa.ansible_freeipa module is executed, is part of the IdM domain as an IdM client, server or replica.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the ~/MyPlaybooks/ directory:

    $ cd ~/MyPlaybooks/
  2. Make a copy of the selfservice-present.yml file located in the /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/freeipa/ansible_freeipa/playbooks/selfservice/ directory:

    $ cp /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/freeipa/ansible_freeipa/playbooks/selfservice/selfservice-present.yml selfservice-present-copy.yml
  3. Open the selfservice-present-copy.yml Ansible playbook file for editing.
  4. Adapt the file by setting the following variables in the freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipaselfservice task section:

    • Set the name variable to the name of the new self-service rule.
    • Set the permission variable to a comma-separated list of permissions to grant: read and write.
    • Set the attribute variable to a list of attributes that users can manage themselves: givenname, displayname, title, and initials.

    This is the modified Ansible playbook file for the current example:

    ---
    - name: Self-service present
      hosts: ipaserver
    
      vars_files:
      - /home/user_name/MyPlaybooks/secret.yml
      tasks:
      - name: Ensure self-service rule "Users can manage their own name details" is present
        freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipaselfservice:
          ipaadmin_password: "{{ ipaadmin_password }}"
          name: "Users can manage their own name details"
          permission: read, write
          attribute:
          - givenname
          - displayname
          - title
          - initials
  5. Save the file.

    For details about variables and example playbooks in the FreeIPA Ansible collection, see the /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/freeipa/ansible_freeipa/README-selfservice.md file and the /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/freeipa/ansible_freeipa/playbooks/selfservice directory on the control node.

  6. 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 inventory selfservice-present-copy.yml
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