community.general.ipa_pwpolicy – Manage FreeIPA password policies
community.general.ipa_pwpolicy – Manage FreeIPA password policies
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.ipa_pwpolicy
.
New in version 2.0.0: of community.general
Synopsis
- Add, modify, or delete a password policy using the IPA API.
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
---|---|---|
failinterval string |
Period (in seconds) after which the number of failed login attempts is reset. | |
group string |
Name of the group that the policy applies to. If omitted, the global policy is used.
| |
historylength string |
Number of previous passwords that are remembered. Users cannot reuse remembered passwords. | |
ipa_host string |
Default: "ipa.example.com" |
IP or hostname of IPA server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable If both the environment variable The relevant entry needed in FreeIPA is the 'ipa-ca' entry. If neither the DNS entry, nor the environment Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5. |
ipa_pass string |
Password of administrative user. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Note that if the 'urllib_gssapi' library is available, it is possible to use GSSAPI to authenticate to FreeIPA. If the environment variable If the environment variable If GSSAPI is not available, the usage of 'ipa_pass' is required. Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5. | |
ipa_port integer |
Default: 443 |
Port of FreeIPA / IPA server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable If both the environment variable Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5. |
ipa_prot string |
|
Protocol used by IPA server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable If both the environment variable Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5. |
ipa_timeout integer |
Default: 10 |
Specifies idle timeout (in seconds) for the connection. For bulk operations, you may want to increase this in order to avoid timeout from IPA server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable If both the environment variable |
ipa_user string |
Default: "admin" |
Administrative account used on IPA server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable If both the environment variable Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5. |
lockouttime string |
Period (in seconds) for which users are locked out. | |
maxfailcount string |
Maximum number of consecutive failures before lockout. | |
maxpwdlife string |
Maximum password lifetime (in days). | |
minclasses string |
Minimum number of character classes. | |
minlength string |
Minimum password length. | |
minpwdlife string |
Minimum password lifetime (in hours). | |
priority string |
Priority of the policy. High number means lower priority. Required when | |
state string |
|
State to ensure. |
validate_certs boolean |
|
This only applies if If set to This should only set to |
Notes
Note
- Supports
check_mode
.
Examples
- name: Modify the global password policy
community.general.ipa_pwpolicy:
maxpwdlife: '90'
minpwdlife: '1'
historylength: '8'
minclasses: '3'
minlength: '16'
maxfailcount: '6'
failinterval: '60'
lockouttime: '600'
ipa_host: ipa.example.com
ipa_user: admin
ipa_pass: topsecret
- name: Ensure the password policy for the group admins is present
community.general.ipa_pwpolicy:
group: admins
state: present
maxpwdlife: '60'
minpwdlife: '24'
historylength: '16'
minclasses: '4'
priority: '10'
maxfailcount: '4'
failinterval: '600'
lockouttime: '1200'
ipa_host: ipa.example.com
ipa_user: admin
ipa_pass: topsecret
- name: Ensure that the group sysops does not have a unique password policy
community.general.ipa_pwpolicy:
group: sysops
state: absent
ipa_host: ipa.example.com
ipa_user: admin
ipa_pass: topsecret
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key | Returned | Description |
---|---|---|
pwpolicy dictionary |
always |
Password policy as returned by IPA API.
Sample: {'cn': ['admins'], 'cospriority': ['10'], 'dn': 'cn=admins,cn=EXAMPLE.COM,cn=kerberos,dc=example,dc=com', 'krbmaxpwdlife': ['60'], 'krbminpwdlife': ['24'], 'krbpwdfailurecountinterval': ['600'], 'krbpwdhistorylength': ['16'], 'krbpwdlockoutduration': ['1200'], 'krbpwdmaxfailure': ['4'], 'krbpwdmindiffchars': ['4'], 'objectclass': ['top', 'nscontainer', 'krbpwdpolicy']} |
Authors
- Adralioh (@adralioh)
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/ipa_pwpolicy_module.html