Ytukyg

I recently discovered the use of for loops in Ansible and was very excited about it.
Tries to use it inside the debug module and it worked superfine, but when I am trying to use the same inside "user" module, the control flow is not able to identify the "name" keyword of user module. Below is my poetry,

- hosts: testservers

  tasks:

  - name: Setting user facts

    set_fact:

      username: "{{ lookup('ini', 'name section=userDetails file=details.ini') }}"

      userpass: "{{ lookup('ini', 'password section=userDetails file=details.ini') }}"



  - name: User creation

    become: true

   # debug:

   #    msg: |

   #     {% for x,y in item.1,item.2 %}

   #     {{ x }} is the username and its password is {{ y }}

   #     {% endfor %}

   # with_items: 

   #     - { 1: "{{ username.split(',') }}", 2: "{{ userpass.split(',') }}" }

    user: |

      {% for x,y in item.1,item.2 %}

      name: "{{ x }}"

      password: "{{ y }}"

      {% endfor %}

    with_items:

        - { 1: "{{ username.split(',') }}", 2: "{{ userpass.split(',') }}" }

Details.ini file contents below

#User basic details

[userDetails]

name=vasanth,vasanthnagkv

password=vasanth12,pass2

The commented part above works fine. but the uncommented part throws the below error

failed: [10.0.0.47] (item={1: [u'vasanth', u'vasanthnagkv'], 2: [u'vasanth12', u'pass2']}) => {

    "changed": false, 

    "invocation": {

        "module_args": {

            "append": false, 

            "create_home": true, 

            "force": false, 

            "move_home": false, 

            "non_unique": false, 

            "remove": false, 

            "ssh_key_bits": 0, 

            "ssh_key_comment": "ansible-generated on APUA-02", 

            "ssh_key_type": "rsa", 

            "state": "present", 

            "system": false, 

            "update_password": "always"

        }

    }, 

    "item": {

        "1": [

            "vasanth", 

            "vasanthnagkv"

        ], 

        "2": [

            "vasanth12", 

            "pass2"

        ]

    }, 

    "msg": "missing required arguments: name"

}

    to retry, use: --limit @/home/admin/ansiblePlaybooks/userCreation/userCreate.retry



PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

10.0.0.47                  : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1 

Appreciate any kind of help here.

This line user: | means your passing a string to user module using the block style indicator: https://yaml-multiline.info/)

Since Ansible will just treat it as a string, you are not passing the required name parameter to the user module

Try splitting the names after the lookup in the first task so you can have the names and passwords list:

- name: Setting user facts

  set_fact:

    username: "{{ lookup('ini', 'name section=userDetails file=details.ini').split(',') }}"

    userpass: "{{ lookup('ini', 'password section=userDetails file=details.ini').split(',') }}"

Once you have both the username and password list, you can use both variables by:

    - user:

        name: "{{ item }}"

        password: "{{ userpass[index] }}"

      loop: "{{ username }}"

      loop_control:

        index_var: index