24.3. Using Ansible to enable AD users to administer IdM

Procedure

1. Navigate to your ~/MyPlaybooks/ directory:

   $ cd ~/MyPlaybooks/

2. Create an add-useridoverride-to-group.yml playbook with the following content:

   ---
   - name: Playbook to ensure presence of users in a group
     hosts: ipaserver
   
     tasks:
     - name: Ensure the ad_user@ad.example.com user ID override is a member of the admins group:
       freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipagroup:
         ipaadmin_password: "{{ ipaadmin_password }}"
         name: admins
         idoverrideuser:
         - ad_user@ad.example.com

   In the example:

   • admins is the name of the IdM POSIX group to which you are adding the ad_user@ad.example.com ID override. Members of this group have full administrator privileges.
   • ad_user@ad.example.com is the user ID override of an AD administrator. The user is stored in the AD domain with which a trust has been established.

3. 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-group.md file and the /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/freeipa/ansible_freeipa/playbooks/user directory on the control node.

4. 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 add-useridoverride-to-group.yml