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stefanbschneider
stefanbschneider

Reputation: 6086

Ansible: Create new user and copy ssh-keys from local system

I'm new to Ansible and I'm struggeling with creating a new user on a remote machine and copying ssh-keys (for git) from the local machine to the remote machine's new user. Basically, from localmachine/somepath/keys/ to remotemachine/newuser/home/.ssh/.

So far I tried:

- name: Create user
  hosts: remote_host
  remote_user: root
  tasks:
    - name: Create new user
      user: name=newuser ssh_key_file=../keys/newuser

While this creates the newuser on the remote machine, it doesn't copy any keys (.ssh is still empty). I also tried authorized_key as a second task but only got an error message when trying to copy the private key.

Is it even possible that the keys are still added after I already ran it and newuseralready exists. Ie, can I just run it again or will I have to delete the newuser first?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 14775

Answers (1)

zigarn
zigarn

Reputation: 11615

The ssh_key_file is the path used by the option generate_ssh_key of user module. It's not the path of a local SSH key to upload to the remote user created.

If you want to upload the SSH key, you have to use the copy module

- name: Create user
  hosts: remote_host
  remote_user: root
  tasks:
    - name: Create new user
      user:
        name: newuser
    - name: Create .ssh folder
      file:
        path: ~newuser/.ssh
        state: directory
        owner: newuser
        group: newuser
        mode: 0700
     - name: Upload SSH key
       copy:
        src: ../keys/newuser
        dest: ~newuser/.ssh/id_rsa
        owner: newuser
        group: newuser
        mode: 0700

BTW, it's recommended to use the YAML syntax instead of the args syntax.

Upvotes: 6

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