What is correct syntax for user module?

[Dave Thacker]

Hello!

Beginner here.  My goal is to use a simple play book to create a new user.    I found this example in the modules pages at ansible.com

# Add the user 'johnd' with a specific uid and a primary group of 'admin'
- user: name=johnd comment="John Doe" uid=1040 group=admin

I used that example and tried this:
---
- hosts: dev
  sudo: yes

  - name: create oracle user
  - user: name=oracle uid=500 group=oinstall description=Oracle Service Account home=/u01/home/oracle

I got this error : ERROR: 'action' or 'local_action' attribute missing in task "create oracle user"

My second playbook iteration looked like this:

---
- hosts: dev
  sudo: yes

  tasks:
#  - name: create oinstall group
#    action: group name=oinstall gid=501

  - name: create oracle user
    action: user name=oracle uid=500 group=oinstall description=Oracle Service Account home=/u01/home/oracle

And I got this error:

PLAY [dev] ********************************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [10.53.153.81]

TASK: [create oracle user] ****************************************************
failed: [10.53.153.81] => {"failed": true}
msg: this module requires key=value arguments (['name=oracle', 'uid=500', 'group=oinstall', 'description=Oracle', 'Service', 'Account', 'home=/u01/home/oracle'])

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

Do the key=value pairs need to be enclosed in a different way.   Which syntax is correct?

THanks in advance

Dave

[Matt Silverlock]

description="Oracle Service Account"

You need to wrap this in quotes - because otherwise it sees "description=Oracle" and then two keys without values (Service, and Account).