How to trace the user module

[Cev Ing]

From time to time I have the situation, that the user module ties to change somthing, but I have no idea what. And when I proceed to run Ansible some change gets done, but I have no idea what might be different after the change. The user module does not seem to support the diff option. How can I analyse what the user module tries to change?

[Adrian Likins]

The docs at http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_module.html don't mention it, but the user module does

return some info, so you can register its results and display it with debug.

Example playbook:

---
-
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - name: ensure a user exists
      user:
        name: adrian
        state: present
      register: user_result

    - name: show user_result
      debug:
        var: user_result

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Cev Ing <cev...@gmail.com> wrote:

From time to time I have the situation, that the user module ties to change somthing, but I have no idea what. And when I proceed to run Ansible some change gets done, but I have no idea what might be different after the change. The user module does not seem to support the diff option. How can I analyse what the user module tries to change?

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