Ansible - Creating users and copying ssh keypair files to the remote server

gistfile1.txt

Put this in your `local-configure.yml` file, add as many users as you need:

    users:
      - name: fulvio
        sudoer: yes
        auth_key: ssh-rsa blahblahblahsomekey this is actually the public key in cleartext
      - name: plone_buildout
        group: plone_group
        sudoer: no
        auth_key: ssh-rsa blahblahblah ansible-generated on default
        keyfiles: keyfiles/plone_buildout

In your playbook root folder, create a folder `keyfiles`.  In it, create a subfolder for 
each username for which you want to copy keyfiles to the server.  Put the private and public key files,
as well as any other files, such as `known_hosts` in the user subfolder.

Add the follwing line in `playbook.yml` under `roles:` (e.g. right under `- role: ANXS.hostname`):

    - role: create_users

Copy the gist file `main.yml` to `/roles/create_users/tasks`.

Now run your playbook.
That's it!

main.yml

---

# vars:
#   users:
#     - name: steve
#       sudoer: yes
#       auth_key: ssh-rsa ...


- name: Ensure plone_group
  group: name=plone_group

# see http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/user_module.html
- name: Add users
  user:
    name={{ item.name }}
    system={{ item.sudoer }}
    shell=/bin/bash
    append=yes
    groups={{ item.group  }}
    # this is just a default password, I think it's SHA512 for "changeme"
    password=$6$rounds=656000$iO7Q9L6/w8dUUQVf$rmtnxrQ15TGAfG5ODxQ/WGyEpTwk.vD1W.UtedmOlo9YNkrIwapYMjmKmteEnUJmRYucgUVxXUQy7gtenpLmw0
    update_password=on_create
  when: item.group is defined
  with_items: users

- name: Add users
  user:
    name={{ item.name }}
    system={{ item.sudoer }}
    shell=/bin/bash
    password=$6$rounds=656000$iO7Q9L6/w8dUUQVf$rmtnxrQ15TGAfG5ODxQ/WGyEpTwk.vD1W.UtedmOlo9YNkrIwapYMjmKmteEnUJmRYucgUVxXUQy7gtenpLmw0
    update_password=on_create
  when: item.group is not defined
  with_items: users

- name: Add .ssh directories
  file:
    path=/home/{{ item.name }}/.ssh
    state=directory
    mode=0700
    owner={{ item.name }}
    group={{ item.group|default(item.name)  }}
  with_items: users

- name: Add keys
  lineinfile:
    dest=/home/{{ item.name }}/.ssh/authorized_keys
    state=present
    create=yes
    line="{{ item.auth_key }}"
    owner={{ item.name }}
    group={{ item.group|default(item.name)  }}
    mode=0644
  when: item.auth_key is defined
  with_items: users

- name: Add to sudoers
  copy:
    dest: /etc/sudoers.d/{{ item.name }}
    content: |
             {{ item.name }}  ALL=(ALL) ALL
             {{ item.name }}  ALL=(plone_daemon, plone_buildout) NOPASSWD:ALL
             {{ item.name }}  ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/supervisorctl
             #
  when: item.sudoer
  with_items: users

- name: SSH keys
  copy:
    src={{ item.keyfiles }}/
    dest=/home/{{ item.name }}/.ssh/
    owner={{ item.name }}
    group={{ item.group|default(item.name) }}
    mode=0600
  when: item.keyfiles is defined
  with_items: users

Thanks for sharing