iam_password_policy – Update an IAM Password Policy

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Ansible/docs/2.9/modules/iam password policy module


iam_password_policy – Update an IAM Password Policy

New in version 2.8.


Synopsis

  • Module updates an IAM Password Policy on a given AWS account

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • boto
  • boto3
  • botocore
  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

allow_pw_change

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Allow users to change their password.


aliases: allow_password_change

aws_access_key

string

AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.


aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key

aws_secret_key

string

AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.


aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs

boolean

added in 2.8

  • no

  • yes

Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.

ec2_url

string

Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.

min_pw_length

integer

Default:

6

Minimum password length.


aliases: minimum_password_length

profile

string

Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.

pw_expire

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Prevents users from change an expired password.


aliases: password_expire, expire

pw_max_age

integer

Default:

0

Maximum age for a password in days. When this option is 0 then passwords do not expire automatically.


aliases: password_max_age

pw_reuse_prevent

integer

Default:

0

Prevent re-use of passwords.


aliases: password_reuse_prevent, prevent_reuse

region

string

The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region


aliases: aws_region, ec2_region

require_lowercase

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Require lowercase letters in password.

require_numbers

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Require numbers in password.

require_symbols

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Require symbols in password.

require_uppercase

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Require uppercase letters in password.

security_token

string

AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used.


aliases: access_token

state

string / required

  • present
  • absent

Specifies the overall state of the password policy.

validate_certs

boolean

  • no
  • yes

When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.



Notes

Note

  • If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION
  • Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file


Examples

- name: Password policy for AWS account
  iam_password_policy:
    state: present
    min_pw_length: 8
    require_symbols: false
    require_numbers: true
    require_uppercase: true
    require_lowercase: true
    allow_pw_change: true
    pw_max_age: 60
    pw_reuse_prevent: 5
    pw_expire: false

Status

Authors

  • Aaron Smith (@slapula)

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