salt.modules.solaris_user

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.solaris_user.add(name, uid=None, gid=None, groups=None, home=None, shell=None, unique=True, fullname='', roomnumber='', workphone='', homephone='', createhome=True, **kwargs)

Add a user to the minion

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.add name <uid> <gid> <groups> <home> <shell>
salt.modules.solaris_user.chfullname(name, fullname)

Change the user's Full Name

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chfullname foo "Foo Bar"
salt.modules.solaris_user.chgid(name, gid)

Change the default group of the user

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chgid foo 4376
salt.modules.solaris_user.chgroups(name, groups, append=False)

Change the groups to which a user belongs

name

Username to modify

groups

List of groups to set for the user. Can be passed as a comma-separated list or a Python list.

appendFalse

Set to True to append these groups to the user's existing list of groups. Otherwise, the specified groups will replace any existing groups for the user.

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chgroups foo wheel,root True
salt.modules.solaris_user.chhome(name, home, persist=False)

Set a new home directory for an existing user

name

Username to modify

home

New home directory to set

persistFalse

Set to True to prevent configuration files in the new home directory from being overwritten by the files from the skeleton directory.

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chhome foo /home/users/foo True
salt.modules.solaris_user.chhomephone(name, homephone)

Change the user's Home Phone

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chhomephone foo "7735551234"
salt.modules.solaris_user.chroomnumber(name, roomnumber)

Change the user's Room Number

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chroomnumber foo 123
salt.modules.solaris_user.chshell(name, shell)

Change the default shell of the user

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chshell foo /bin/zsh
salt.modules.solaris_user.chuid(name, uid)

Change the uid for a named user

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chuid foo 4376
salt.modules.solaris_user.chworkphone(name, workphone)

Change the user's Work Phone

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chworkphone foo "7735550123"
salt.modules.solaris_user.delete(name, remove=False, force=False)

Remove a user from the minion

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.delete name remove=True force=True
salt.modules.solaris_user.getent(refresh=False)

Return the list of all info for all users

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.getent
salt.modules.solaris_user.info(name)

Return user information

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.info root
salt.modules.solaris_user.list_groups(name)

Return a list of groups the named user belongs to

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.list_groups foo
salt.modules.solaris_user.list_users()

Return a list of all users

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.list_users
salt.modules.solaris_user.rename(name, new_name)

Change the username for a named user

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.rename name new_name