salt.modules.useradd¶
Manage users with the useradd command
Important
If you feel that Salt should be using this module to manage users on a minion, and it is using a different module (or gives an error similar to 'user.info' is not available), see here.
- salt.modules.useradd.add(name, uid=None, gid=None, groups=None, home=None, shell=None, unique=True, system=False, fullname='', roomnumber='', workphone='', homephone='', other='', createhome=True, loginclass=None, nologinit=False, root=None, usergroup=None)¶
Add a user to the minion
- name
Username LOGIN to add
- uid
User ID of the new account
- gid
Name or ID of the primary group of the new account
- groups
List of supplementary groups of the new account
- home
Home directory of the new account
- shell
Login shell of the new account
- unique
If not True, the user account can have a non-unique UID
- system
Create a system account
- fullname
GECOS field for the full name
- roomnumber
GECOS field for the room number
- workphone
GECOS field for the work phone
- homephone
GECOS field for the home phone
- other
GECOS field for other information
- createhome
Create the user's home directory
- loginclass
Login class for the new account (OpenBSD)
- nologinit
Do not add the user to the lastlog and faillog databases
- root
Directory to chroot into
- usergroup
Create and add the user to a new primary group of the same name
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.add name <uid> <gid> <groups> <home> <shell>
- salt.modules.useradd.chfullname(name, fullname, root=None)¶
Change the user's Full Name
- name
User to modify
- fullname
GECOS field for the full name
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.chfullname foo "Foo Bar"
- salt.modules.useradd.chgid(name, gid, root=None)¶
Change the default group of the user
- name
User to modify
- gid
Force use GID as new primary group
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.chgid foo 4376
- salt.modules.useradd.chgroups(name, groups, append=False, root=None)¶
Change the groups to which this user belongs
- name
User to modify
- groups
Groups to set for the user
- appendFalse
If
True, append the specified group(s). Otherwise, this function will replace the user's groups with the specified group(s).- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Examples:
salt '*' user.chgroups foo wheel,root salt '*' user.chgroups foo wheel,root append=True
- salt.modules.useradd.chhome(name, home, persist=False, root=None)¶
Change the home directory of the user, pass True for persist to move files to the new home directory if the old home directory exist.
- name
User to modify
- home
New home directory for the user account
- persist
Move contents of the home directory to the new location
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.chhome foo /home/users/foo True
- salt.modules.useradd.chhomephone(name, homephone, root=None)¶
Change the user's Home Phone
- name
User to modify
- homephone
GECOS field for the home phone
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.chhomephone foo 7735551234
- salt.modules.useradd.chloginclass(name, loginclass, root=None)¶
Change the default login class of the user
- name
User to modify
- loginclass
Login class for the new account
- root
Directory to chroot into
Note
This function only applies to OpenBSD systems.
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.chloginclass foo staff
- salt.modules.useradd.chother(name, other, root=None)¶
Change the user's other GECOS attribute
- name
User to modify
- other
GECOS field for other information
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.chother foobar
- salt.modules.useradd.chroomnumber(name, roomnumber, root=None)¶
Change the user's Room Number
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.chroomnumber foo 123
- salt.modules.useradd.chshell(name, shell, root=None)¶
Change the default shell of the user
- name
User to modify
- shell
New login shell for the user account
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.chshell foo /bin/zsh
- salt.modules.useradd.chuid(name, uid, root=None)¶
Change the uid for a named user
- name
User to modify
- uid
New UID for the user account
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.chuid foo 4376
- salt.modules.useradd.chworkphone(name, workphone, root=None)¶
Change the user's Work Phone
- name
User to modify
- workphone
GECOS field for the work phone
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.chworkphone foo 7735550123
- salt.modules.useradd.delete(name, remove=False, force=False, root=None)¶
Remove a user from the minion
- name
Username to delete
- remove
Remove home directory and mail spool
- force
Force some actions that would fail otherwise
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.delete name remove=True force=True
- salt.modules.useradd.get_loginclass(name)¶
Get the login class of the user
- name
User to get the information
Note
This function only applies to OpenBSD systems.
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.get_loginclass foo
- salt.modules.useradd.getent(refresh=False, root=None)¶
Return the list of all info for all users
- refresh
Force a refresh of user information
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.getent
- salt.modules.useradd.info(name, root=None)¶
Return user information
- name
User to get the information
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.info root
- salt.modules.useradd.list_groups(name)¶
Return a list of groups the named user belongs to
- name
User to get the information
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.list_groups foo
- salt.modules.useradd.list_users(root=None)¶
Return a list of all users
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.list_users
- salt.modules.useradd.primary_group(name)¶
Return the primary group of the named user
New in version 2016.3.0.
- name
User to get the information
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.primary_group saltadmin
- salt.modules.useradd.rename(name, new_name, root=None)¶
Change the username for a named user
- name
User to modify
- new_name
New value of the login name
- root
Directory to chroot into
CLI Example:
salt '*' user.rename name new_name
