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# bigip_user – Manage user accounts and user attributes on a BIG-IP

New in version 2.4.

- Synopsis
- Parameters
- Notes
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## Synopsis

- Manage user accounts and user attributes on a BIG-IP. Typically this module operates only on the REST API users and not the CLI users. When specifying `root`, you may only change the password. Your other parameters will be ignored in this case. Changing the `root` password is not an idempotent operation. Therefore, it will change it every time this module attempts to change it.

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
full_name string |  | Full name of the user.
partition string added in 2.5 | Default: "Common" | Device partition to manage resources on.
partition_access list |  | Specifies the administrative partition to which the user has access. `partition_access` is required when creating a new account. Should be in the form "partition:role". Valid roles include `acceleration-policy-editor`, `admin`, `application-editor`, `auditor`, `certificate-manager`, `guest`, `irule-manager`, `manager`, `no-access`, `operator`, `resource-admin`, `user-manager`, `web-application-security-administrator`, and `web-application-security-editor`. Partition portion of tuple should be an existing partition or the value 'all'.
password_credential string |  | Set the users password to this unencrypted value. `password_credential` is required when creating a new account.
provider dictionary added in 2.5 |  | A dict object containing connection details.
| auth_provider string |  | Configures the auth provider for to obtain authentication tokens from the remote device. This option is really used when working with BIG-IQ devices.
| password string / required |  | The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_PASSWORD`. aliases: pass, pwd
| server string / required |  | The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER`.
| server_port integer | Default: 443 | The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER_PORT`.
| ssh_keyfile path |  | Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for cli transports. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE`.
| timeout integer |  | Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
| transport string | Choices: cli rest ← | Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.
| user string / required |  | The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_USER`.
| validate_certs boolean | Choices: no yes ← | If `no`, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_VALIDATE_CERTS`.
shell string | Choices: bash none tmsh | Optionally set the users shell.
state string | Choices: present ← absent | Whether the account should exist or not, taking action if the state is different from what is stated.
update_password string | Choices: always ← on_create | `always` will allow to update passwords if the user chooses to do so. `on_create` will only set the password for newly created users. When `username_credential` is `root`, this value will be forced to `always`.
username_credential string / required |  | Name of the user to create, remove or modify. The `root` user may not be removed. aliases: name

## Notes

Note

- Requires BIG-IP versions >= 12.0.0
- For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.
- Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12.
- The F5 modules only manipulate the running configuration of the F5 product. To ensure that BIG-IP specific configuration persists to disk, be sure to include at least one task that uses the bigip_config module to save the running configuration. Refer to the module’s documentation for the correct usage of the module to save your running configuration.

## Examples

    - name: Add the user 'johnd' as an admin
      bigip_user:
        username_credential: johnd
        password_credential: password
        full_name: John Doe
        partition_access: all:admin
        update_password: on_create
        state: present
        provider:
          server: lb.mydomain.com
          user: admin
          password: secret
      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Change the user "johnd's" role and shell
      bigip_user:
        username_credential: johnd
        partition_access: NewPartition:manager
        shell: tmsh
        state: present
        provider:
          server: lb.mydomain.com
          user: admin
          password: secret
      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Make the user 'johnd' an admin and set to advanced shell
      bigip_user:
        name: johnd
        partition_access: all:admin
        shell: bash
        state: present
        provider:
          server: lb.mydomain.com
          user: admin
          password: secret
      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Remove the user 'johnd'
      bigip_user:
        name: johnd
        state: absent
        provider:
          server: lb.mydomain.com
          user: admin
          password: secret
      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Update password
      bigip_user:
        state: present
        username_credential: johnd
        password_credential: newsupersecretpassword
        provider:
          server: lb.mydomain.com
          user: admin
          password: secret
      delegate_to: localhost

    # Note that the second time this task runs, it would fail because
    # The password has been changed. Therefore, it is recommended that
    # you either,
    #
    #   * Put this in its own playbook that you run when you need to
    #   * Put this task in a `block`
    #   * Include `ignore_errors` on this task
    - name: Change the Admin password
      bigip_user:
        state: present
        username_credential: admin
        password_credential: NewSecretPassword
        provider:
          server: lb.mydomain.com
          user: admin
          password: secret
      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Change the root user's password
      bigip_user:
        username_credential: root
        password_credential: secret
        state: present
        provider:
          server: lb.mydomain.com
          user: admin
          password: secret
      delegate_to: localhost

## Return Values

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

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
full_name string | changed and success | Full name of the user Sample: John Doe
partition_access list | changed and success | List of strings containing the user's roles and which partitions they are applied to. They are specified in the form "partition:role". Sample: ['all:admin']
shell string | changed and success | The shell assigned to the user account Sample: tmsh

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by an Ansible Partner. [certified]

### Authors

- Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)
- Wojciech Wypior (@wojtek0806)

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