macOS New User Ansible Role

This Ansible role creates a new user on a macOS system.

It is used in Splinter, a tool for setting up macOS.

Example Playbook

- vars:
    new_user_username:                        "testuser"
    new_user_fullname:                        "Test User"
    new_user_password_cleartext:              "Clear Text Password" # Ansible can only create users on macOS using a plain text password (for now)
- hosts: localhost
  roles:
  - marcomc.macos_new_user

Variables

• verbose: no
• new_user_username: ""
• new_user_fullname: ""
• new_user_shell: "/bin/zsh"
• new_user_password_cleartext: ""
• new_user_generate_ssh_key: no
• new_user_reset_password_on_login: yes
• new_user_is_admin: yes
• new_user_update_path_for_all_shell_types: no
• new_user_profile_picture_path: ""
• new_user_random_profile_picture: no
• new_user_random_profile_pictures_path: "{{ playbook_dir }}/files/profile_pictures"
• new_user_profile_pictures_filter_formats: 'jpg|jpeg|png' # filter formats for images

License

MIT

Author: Marco Massari Calderone (c) 2020 - marco@marcomc.com