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community.general.proxmox_user_info – Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE users

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.proxmox_user_info.

New in version 1.3.0: of community.general

Synopsis

  • Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE users

Requirements

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

  • proxmoxer
  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_host
string / required
Specify the target host of the Proxmox VE cluster.
api_password
string
Specify the password to authenticate with.
You can use PROXMOX_PASSWORD environment variable.
api_token_id
string
added in 1.3.0 of community.general
Specify the token ID.
api_token_secret
string
added in 1.3.0 of community.general
Specify the token secret.
api_user
string / required
Specify the user to authenticate with.
domain
string
Restrict results to a specific authentication realm.

aliases: realm
user
string
Restrict results to a specific user.

aliases: name
userid
string
Restrict results to a specific user ID, which is a concatenation of a user and domain parts.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: List existing users
  community.general.proxmox_user_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
  register: proxmox_users

- name: List existing users in the pve authentication realm
  community.general.proxmox_user_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
    domain: pve
  register: proxmox_users_pve

- name: Retrieve information about admin@pve
  community.general.proxmox_user_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
    userid: admin@pve
  register: proxmox_user_admin

- name: Alternative way to retrieve information about admin@pve
  community.general.proxmox_user_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
    user: admin
    domain: pve
  register: proxmox_user_admin

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
proxmox_users
list / elements=dictionary
always, but can be empty
List of users.
comment
string
on success
Short description of the user.
domain
string
on success
User's authentication realm, also the right part of the user ID.
email
string
on success
User's email address.
enabled
boolean
on success
User's account state.
expire
integer
on success
Expiration date in seconds since EPOCH. Zero means no expiration.
firstname
string
on success
User's first name.
groups
list / elements=string
on success
List of groups which the user is a member of.
keys
string
on success
User's two factor authentication keys.
lastname
string
on success
User's last name.
tokens
list / elements=dictionary
on success
List of API tokens associated to the user.
comment
string
on success
Short description of the token.
expire
integer
on success
Expiration date in seconds since EPOCH. Zero means no expiration.
privsep
boolean
on success
Describe if the API token is further restricted with ACLs or is fully privileged.
tokenid
string
on success
Token name.
user
string
on success
User's login name, also the left part of the user ID.
userid
string
on success
Proxmox user ID, represented as user@realm.


Authors

  • Tristan Le Guern (@tleguern)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/proxmox_user_info_module.html