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community.general.ejabberd_user – Manages users for ejabberd servers

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.ejabberd_user.

Synopsis

  • This module provides user management for ejabberd servers

Requirements

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

  • ejabberd with mod_admin_extra

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
host
string / required
the ejabberd host associated with this username
logging
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
enables or disables the local syslog facility for this module
password
string
the password to assign to the username
state
string
    Choices:
  • present
  • absent
describe the desired state of the user to be managed
username
string / required
the name of the user to manage

Notes

Note

  • Password parameter is required for state == present only
  • Passwords must be stored in clear text for this release
  • The ejabberd configuration file must include mod_admin_extra as a module.

Examples

# Example playbook entries using the ejabberd_user module to manage users state.

- name: Create a user if it does not exist
  community.general.ejabberd_user:
    username: test
    host: server
    password: password

- name: Delete a user if it exists
  community.general.ejabberd_user:
    username: test
    host: server
    state: absent

Authors

  • Peter Sprygada (@privateip)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/ejabberd_user_module.html