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

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Author

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. 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 >= 3.0.16

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 may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_PASSWORD`. 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)		Default: None	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. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE`.
	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 may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER`.
	user required		The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_USER`.
	server_port	Default: 443	The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER_PORT`.
	password required		The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_PASSWORD`. aliases: pass, pwd
	validate_certs bool	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_VALIDATE_CERTS`.
	transport required	Choices: rest cli ←	Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.
server required			The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER`.
server_port (added in 2.2)		Default: 443	The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER_PORT`.
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 may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_USER`.
username_credential required			Name of the user to create, remove or modify. The `root` user may not be removed. aliases: name
validate_certs bool (added in 2.0)		Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_VALIDATE_CERTS`.

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.
Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12.
The F5 modules only manipulate the running configuration of the F5 product. To ensure that BIG-IP specific configuration persists to disk, be sure to include at least one task that uses the bigip_config module to save the running configuration. Refer to the module’s documentation for the correct usage of the module to save your running configuration.

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.

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as certified which means that it is maintained by an Ansible Partner. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by an Ansible Partner, see here.

Author ¶

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

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