Basic beginner question

[Waqar Khan]

Starting out with ansible and trying to configure sshd config. Here is what I have, it works but is there a better way to do with for future reference. e.g. if I have many different distributions it looks like a lot of copying. Can I combine the 2 tasks?

- name: sshd Amazon

lineinfile:

state: present

path: /etc/ssh/sshd_config

regexp: "^AllowUsers"

line: AllowUsers ec2-user

when: ansible_distribution == 'Amazon'

notify:

- restart sshd

- name: sshd Centos

lineinfile:

state: present

path: /etc/ssh/sshd_config

regexp: "^AllowUsers"

line: AllowUsers centos

when: ansible_distribution == 'Centos'

notify:

- restart sshd

[Kai Stian Olstad]

You can create a variable that contains the information

allowusers:
Amazon: ec2-user
Centos: centos

And then you only need one task
- name: sshd_config
lineinfile:
path: /etc/ssh/sshd_config
regexp: "^AllowUsers"
line: AllowUsers {{ allowusers[ansible_distribution] }}
notify: restart sshd


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Kai Stian Olstad

[Jean-Yves LENHOF]

Hi,

You probably looking for ansible_os_family which is RedHat for these distributions : RedHat EL, CentOS, Amazon, etc...

You should probably test the major version (between 6 and 7, there's service and systemctl which are kind different for example, I suppose you're not modifying only ssh config)

So you're when directive should be something like this :

when: ansible_os_family == 'RedHat' and ansible_distribution_major_version in ['6','7']

Regards,

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[Waqar Khan]

Brilliant - thank you