Proxmox and Ansible - Creation of user accounts

[chrisanzalone007]

So - now that I've played with KVM, and Proxmox - I've decided to start replacing KVM hypervisors with Proxmox at work.

We use Ansible to deploy our machines, and i'm stuck on one thing.

We manage our user accounts through ansible - which were all created successfully, but it appears Proxmox requires it's own user creation.

Has anyone run into this before? I'm very weak with programming, and i'm struggling to find a method.

Open to ideas! But - I do want to keep it simple.

 

[dcsapak]

yes if you want to authenticate with pam users, you have to also create the users in our tools
you can use the tool 'pveum'

e.g.

pveum useradd <username>@<authenticationrealm>

in case of the user 'test' on 'pam' it would be

pveum useradd test@pam

you can of course also use the api instead

 

[chrisanzalone007]

Thank you for the reply.
I ended up using a template file in ansible to build the user.cfg file with usernames and acl. The passwords created in Linux as part of our base install playbook passed right through.

Working perfect!