Find all files owned by a particular user

[lift...@gmail.com]

I'm trying to use the find module to search a path and return all files owned by a particular user.  I can get the list of all files in the folder, but the data returned has both the path and the pw_name for each file.  How can I narrow the search to return only files where pw_name is a certain user?

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- hosts: localhost

  become: yes

  become_method: sudo

  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

  - name: Find all files under /tmp

    find:

      paths: /tmp

      recurse: yes

    register: fs

  - name: Print output

    debug:

      msg: "{{ fs }}"

What gets printed is every single file found, and fs.files has both path and pw_name.  I want to only show any file where pw_name is the user I'm looking for.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Harry

[Dick Visser]

for instance using selectattr.

"{{ fs.files|selectattr('pw_name', 'equalto', 'some_user')|list }}"

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[lift...@gmail.com]

Thank you for that suggestion!  Worked perfectly!  I appreciate it very much.

Thanks,

Harry

[lift...@gmail.com]

One other question on this:  How can I use a variable as the third parameter?  I'm hoping to pass in a user name and match that in the check, but I'm getting an error when I run it.

vars:

- user_to_remove: 'user1'

The fact is now set as:  "{{ fs.files | selectattr('pw_name','equalto',{{ user_to_remove }}) | list }}"

The error is:  template error while templating string: expected token ':', got '}'

Any ideas?

Harry

[Dick Visser]

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/faq.html#when-should-i-use-also-how-to-interpolate-variables-or-dynamic-variable-names

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[lift...@gmail.com]

Awesome!  Thanks for that.  Got it to work using the lookup function:

"{{ fs.files | selectattr('pw_name','equalto',lookup('vars', 'user_to_remove')) | list }}"

Thanks again!

Harry

[Dick Visser]

Hii

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 16:33, lift...@gmail.com <lift...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Awesome! Thanks for that. Got it to work using the lookup function:
> "{{ fs.files | selectattr('pw_name','equalto',lookup('vars', 'user_to_remove')) | list }}"

Probably this will also work:

"{{ fs.files | selectattr('pw_name','equalto', user_to_remove) | list }}"

[lift...@gmail.com]

Yes, that also worked.  The use of the brackets in these types of situations always trips me up.

Thanks,

Harry