Ansible Role: htpasswd

This is an Ansible Role for managing user credentials using htpasswd for web servers like nginx.

Requirements & Dependencies

• You need passlib version 1.6 or higher.

Supported Operating Systems

Tested on:

• ArchLinux
• Debian systems
  • Debian 10 / 11
  • Ubuntu 20.04

Configuration

Default Settings

htpasswd_credentials_path: /etc/nginx

htpasswd_credentials: []

htpasswd_list_users: true

Setting Credentials

You can also check the molecule tests for example configurations.

htpasswd_credentials:
  - path: "{{ htpasswd_credentials_path }}/.admin-passwdfile"
    mode: "u=rw,g=r,o-r"
    owner: "www-data"
    users:
    - username: admin
      password: ZRhgqhaAjdbuFXj2PLJTzYy5PrRsStNaeYWd9c3Ze3
    - username: administrator
      password: gp!tk<r+JcDyJhV5!tgzZVUWx233HLVZMJUy<YNVPZ
      state: absent  # This means the user will be removed.
      # Check the documentation for crypt_scheme options
      # Available choices include: apr_md5_crypt, des_crypt, ldap_sha1, plaintext
      crypt_scheme: plaintext

  - path: "{{ htpasswd_credentials_path }}/.monitoring-passwdfile"
    users:
    - username: monitoring
      password: gp!tk<r+JcDyJhV5!tgzZVUWx233HLVZMJUy<YNVPZ
      crypt_scheme: des_crypt

Author and License

• Created by Bodo Schulz

License

Apache

This is free software!