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bigip_user - Manage user accounts and user attributes on a BIG-IP

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

  • Manage user accounts and user attributes on a BIG-IP. Typically this module operates only on the REST API users and not the CLI users. There is one exception though and that is if you specify the username_credential of root. When specifying root, you may only change the password. Your other parameters will be ignored in this case. Changing the root password is not an idempotent operation. Therefore, it will change it every time this module attempts to change it.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • f5-sdk >= 3.0.9

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Comments
full_name
Full name of the user.
partition
(added in 2.5)
Default:
Common
Device partition to manage resources on.
partition_access
Specifies the administrative partition to which the user has access. partition_access is required when creating a new account. Should be in the form "partition:role". Valid roles include acceleration-policy-editor, admin, application-editor, auditor certificate-manager, guest, irule-manager, manager, no-access operator, resource-admin, user-manager, web-application-security-administrator, and web-application-security-editor. Partition portion of tuple should be an existing partition or the value 'all'.
password
required
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_PASSWORD is set.

aliases: pass, pwd
password_credential
Set the users password to this unencrypted value. password_credential is required when creating a new account.
provider
(added in 2.5)
A dict object containing connection details.
 
ssh_keyfile
Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for cli transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead.
 
timeout
Default:
10
Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
 
server
required
The BIG-IP host. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER is set.
 
user
required
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_USER is set.
 
server_port
Default:
443
The BIG-IP server port. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT is set.
 
password
required
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_PASSWORD is set.

aliases: pass, pwd
 
validate_certs
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS is set.
 
transport
required
    Choices:
  • rest
  • cli ←
Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.
server
required
The BIG-IP host. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER is set.
server_port
(added in 2.2)
Default:
443
The BIG-IP server port. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT is set.
shell
    Choices:
  • bash
  • none
  • tmsh
Optionally set the users shell.
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether the account should exist or not, taking action if the state is different from what is stated.
update_password
    Choices:
  • always
  • on_create ←
always will allow to update passwords if the user chooses to do so. on_create will only set the password for newly created users. When username_credential is root, this value will be forced to always.
user
required
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_USER is set.
username_credential
required
Name of the user to create, remove or modify. There is a special case that exists for the user root.

aliases: name
validate_certs
(added in 2.0)
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS is set.

Notes

Note

  • Requires BIG-IP versions >= 12.0.0
  • For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.
  • Requires the f5-sdk Python package on the host. This is as easy as pip install f5-sdk.

Examples

- name: Add the user 'johnd' as an admin
  bigip_user:
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    password: secret
    username_credential: johnd
    password_credential: password
    full_name: John Doe
    partition_access: all:admin
    update_password: on_create
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Change the user "johnd's" role and shell
  bigip_user:
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    password: secret
    username_credential: johnd
    partition_access: NewPartition:manager
    shell: tmsh
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Make the user 'johnd' an admin and set to advanced shell
  bigip_user:
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    password: secret
    name: johnd
    partition_access: all:admin
    shell: bash
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove the user 'johnd'
  bigip_user:
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    password: secret
    name: johnd
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Update password
  bigip_user:
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    password: secret
    state: present
    username_credential: johnd
    password_credential: newsupersecretpassword
  delegate_to: localhost

# Note that the second time this task runs, it would fail because
# The password has been changed. Therefore, it is recommended that
# you either,
#
#   * Put this in its own playbook that you run when you need to
#   * Put this task in a `block`
#   * Include `ignore_errors` on this task
- name: Change the Admin password
  bigip_user:
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    password: secret
    state: present
    username_credential: admin
    password_credential: NewSecretPassword
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Change the root user's password
  bigip_user:
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    password: secret
    username_credential: root
    password_credential: secret
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key
Returned
Description
full_name
string
changed and success
Full name of the user

Sample:
John Doe
partition_access
list
changed and success
List of strings containing the user's roles and which partitions they are applied to. They are specified in the form "partition:role".

Sample:
['all:admin']
shell
string
changed and success
The shell assigned to the user account

Sample:
tmsh


Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)
  • Wojciech Wypior (@wojtek0806)

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