save stdout to file on localhost.

[Mario Garcia]

i want to query all the users on the hosts of my inventory and create afile for each hosts with all the privileges for each user 

I know that htere tools like freeipa but we do not have those in place 

so i am using the getent wrapper to get all the users on the hosts included the netgroups.. run sudo -lU on each of these hosts and save the output to file by using stdout or stdout_lines. 

the problems is only one username is saved to the file and not all of them 

this is the playbook: 

---

- name: get users from  hosts

  hosts: all

  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

  - name: get users

    getent:

      database: passwd

  - name: get sudo rights

    shell:

      cmd: sudo -lU "{{ item }}"

    loop: "{{ getent_passwd.keys()|flatten(levels=1) }}"

    register: sudo_rights

  - name: debug sudo_rights

    debug:

      msg: "{{item.stdout}}"

    loop: "{{ sudo_rights.results }}"

  - name: save to file

    copy:

      content: "{{item.stdout}}"

      dest: privs_{{inventory_hostnam}}

    loop: "{{ sudo_rights.results }}"

    delegate_to: localhost

    run_once: true

I suspect taht only the last user queried is on the file.. based on the debug output but how have them all. 

can copy concatenane should i use a jinja template and use the template module instead? 

thank you 

[Kai Stian Olstad]

This should work:

- name: save to file
copy:

content: "{{ sudo_rights.results | map(attribute='stdout') | join('\n') }}"
dest: privs_{{inventory_hostnam}}
delegate_to: localhost

You can't use run once, since you need the task to run one time for each host.


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Kai Stian Olstad