Help with Variables and command/shell module

[Robert]

All,

I have a playbook that reads in a vars_file and creates new users and then runs the chage command to force them to change their password on first/next login.  Here is the playbook.

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---
- hosts: my-test-centos
  become: yes
  vars_files:
    - /home/rkruck/ansible-playbooks/users.yml
  tasks:
    - name:  Adding users from user.yml file
      user:
        name: "{{ item.name }}"
        state: present
        comment: "{{ item.comment }}"
        uid: "{{ item.uid }}"
        password: $6$QAnwjCYOtTaLJkHE$k3tKqKT0B/mFugYNBjuhY7RCVU/AwvW00wTg6p/66Gp/MoWdN2QfveJxGmsdho5Hn.xduUVCuLiXHPeZDod/o1
        update_password: on_create
        createhome: yes
      with_items: "{{ users }}"

    - name: Force password change for user test-user
        command: "chage -d 0 {{ item.name }}"
      with_items: "{{ users }}"

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The first task works fine and creates the users in the user.yml file.  However, when it gets to the password force change I get the following error:

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
  mapping values are not allowed in this context

The error appears to have been in '/home/rkruck/ansible-playbooks/test.yml': line 19, column 16, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

    - name: Force password change for user test-user
        command: "chage -d 0 {{ item.name }}"
               ^ here
We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
missing quotes.  Always quote template expression brackets when they
start a value. For instance:

    with_items:
      - {{ foo }}

Should be written as:

    with_items:
      - "{{ foo }}"

I'm confused as to what I am doing wrong.

Any help is appreciated

--Robert

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On Monday, 10 December 2018 15:32:53 CET Robert wrote:
>
> - name: Force password change for user test-user
> command: "chage -d 0 {{ item.name }}"
> with_items: "{{ users }}"
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> The first task works fine and creates the users in the user.yml file.
> However, when it gets to the password force change I get the following
> error:
>
> ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
> mapping values are not allowed in this context
>
> The error appears to have been in
> '/home/rkruck/ansible-playbooks/test.yml': line 19, column 16, but may
> be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
>
> The offending line appears to be:
>
> - name: Force password change for user test-user
> command: "chage -d 0 {{ item.name }}"
> ^ here

You have indented command to far, remove two spaces so it align at the same level as name and with_items.

--
Kai Stian Olstad

[Robert]

Thanks I feel utterly stupid right now....that fixed the problem.

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