Using a variable in a loop

[lift...@gmail.com]

I'm trying to look through a loop of users to get their email addresses from an IPA server.  When I run it, I get an error stating that "name" is an undefined variable.  Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

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- hosts: localhost

  become: yes

  become_method: sudo

  gather_facts: no

  vars_files:

    - /etc/ansible/vault.yml

  vars:

    - users:

      - { name: "user1 }

      - { name: "user2" }

  tasks:

  - name: Get User's Email Address

    shell: "set -o pipefail && /bin/ipa user-show {{ item.name }} --all --raw | grep mail: | awk '{print $2}'"

    register: email

    loop:

    - "{{ users }}"

  - name: Print email

    debug:

      msg: "{{ email.stdout }}"

The error states  "The task includes an option with an undefined variable.  The error was: 'list object' has no attribute 'name'".

Thanks,

Harry

[Matt Martz]

Instead of:

  loop:

    - "{{ users }}"

You want:

  loop: "{{ users }}"

Otherwise, you are creating a list in YAML with the value of users as the single element.

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[lift...@gmail.com]

Thanks!  I feel stupid.  That worked.  However, now I'm getting an error in printing out the user's email address.  I'm registering a variable called email, and when I do the debug message, I get an error that says that stdout isn't defined.  if I just print out the variable 'email' I see stdout present.  I'm just doing this so i can hopefully use the email later on.

Thanks,

Harry

[Matt Martz]

See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_loops.html#registering-variables-with-a-loop

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