salt.states.user

Management of user accounts.

The user module is used to create and manage user settings, users can be set as either absent or present

fred:
  user.present:
    - fullname: Fred Jones
    - shell: /bin/zsh
    - home: /home/fred
    - uid: 4000
    - gid: 4000
    - groups:
      - wheel
      - storage
      - games

testuser:
  user.absent

salt.states.user.absent(name, purge=False, force=False)

Ensure that the named user is absent

name

The name of the user to remove

purge

Set purge to delete all of the user's file as well as the user

force

If the user is logged in the absent state will fail, set the force option to True to remove the user even if they are logged in

salt.states.user.present(name, uid=None, gid=None, gid_from_name=False, groups=None, optional_groups=None, home=True, password=None, enforce_password=True, shell=None, unique=True, system=False, fullname='', roomnumber='', workphone='', homephone='')

Ensure that the named user is present with the specified properties

name

The name of the user to manage

uid

The user id to assign, if left empty then the next available user id will be assigned

gid

The default group id

gid_from_name

If True, the default group id will be set to the id of the group with the same name as the user.

groups

A list of groups to assign the user to, pass a list object. If a group specified here does not exist on the minion, the state will fail. If set to the empty list, the user will be removed from all groups except the default group.

optional_groups

A list of groups to assign the user to, pass a list object. If a group specified here does not exist on the minion, the state will silently ignore it.

NOTE: If the same group is specified in both "groups" and "optional_groups", then it will be assumed to be required and not optional.

home

The location of the home directory to manage

password

A password hash to set for the user

enforce_password

Set to False to keep the password from being changed if it has already been set and the password hash differs from what is specified in the "password" field. This option will be ignored if "password" is not specified.

shell

The login shell, defaults to the system default shell

unique

Require a unique UID, True by default

system

Choose UID in the range of FIRST_SYSTEM_UID and LAST_SYSTEM_UID.

User comment field (GECOS) support (currently Linux and FreeBSD only):

The below values should be specified as strings to avoid ambiguities when the values are loaded. (Especially the phone and room number fields which are likely to contain numeric data)

fullname

The user's full name.

roomnumber

The user's room number

workphone

The user's work phone number

homephone

The user's home phone number