Creating a user and setting password only when getent returns a null value from passwd database.

[michael....@gmail.com]

i am trying to get this to work, but its skipping over user creation in this current form when getent returns a null answer

 --- 

 - hosts: test

   remote_user: ansible

   become: yes 

   gather_facts: yes 

   vars: 

     user_name: yourusername

   vars_prompt: 

     - name: "encrypted_user_password" 

       prompt: "Enter New Password" 

       private: yes 

       encrypt: "md5_crypt" 

       confirm: yes 

       salt_size: 7 

tasks: 

   - name: Get information about the user 

     getent: 

       key={{user_name}} 

       database=passwd 

       fail_key=true 

 - name: Create user account

   user: name={{ user_name }}

         password={{ encrypted_user_password }}

         state=present

         append=yes

         groups=sudo

         shell="/bin/bash"

         update_password=always

   when: getent_passwd[user_name] != none

[michael....@gmail.com]

*Edit* fail_key=false

[Kai Stian Olstad]

Here you say run user module when getent_passwd[user_name] is not
none/null, aka the user already exist.
Change it to "==" instead of "!=" and it should work.

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Kai Stian Olstad