Creating a new user with SSH rights on OS X

[Anthony Green]

I've been trying to use the group and user module to create a user account that has SSH rights.

the tasks i'm running are:

- name: Add jenkins user

  user: name=jenkins comment=Jenkins password=foobar system=yes

  sudo: yes

and although the user is created SSH isn't set up properly: If I try to connect as the user jenkins I get authenticated but the connection immediately closes.

previously I'd used a sequence of shell commands:

- name: Create Jenkins user

  shell: "{{item}}"

  with_items:

    - "dscl . -create /Users/jenkins"

    - "dscl . -create /Users/jenkins UserShell /bin/bash"

    - "dscl . -create /Users/jenkins RealName 'Jenkins'"

    - "dscl . -create /Users/jenkins UniqueID {{unique_id_generator.stdout}}"

    - "dscl . -create /Users/jenkins PrimaryGroupID 20"

    - "dscl . -create /Users/jenkins NFSHomeDirectory /Users/jenkins"

    - "createhomedir -c > /dev/null"

    - "dscl . append /Groups/com.apple.access_ssh user jenkins"

    - "dscl . append /Groups/com.apple.access_ssh groupmembers `dscl . read /Users/jenkins GeneratedUID | cut -d ' ' -f 2`"

    - "dscl . -passwd /Users/jenkins foobar"

  sudo: yes

and this does work

Any ideas or is this a bug in the user module?

[Anthony Green]

the answer was to add the user to the ssh group and set the shell

- name: Add jenkins user

  user: name=jenkins comment=Jenkins password=foobar groups=com.apple.access_ssh shell=/bin/bash

  sudo: yes