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Matias Barrios
Matias Barrios

Reputation: 5056

Unable to create a single user using Ansible

Im trying to run the simplest Ansible script ever. But I cant as I am having the below error :

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
      - name: Create single user
        user: name="matias" password="secret" shell="/bin/bash"

Error :

[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match
'all'

ERROR! unexpected parameter type in action: <class 'ansible.parsing.yaml.objects.AnsibleSequence'>

The error appears to be in 'matias/tasks/main.yml': line 3, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

# Example playbook that shows how to create users from the generated ansible variable file
- hosts: all
  ^ here

My command :

ansible-playbook mainplaybook.yml

What am I doing wrong here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 46

Answers (1)

Armin
Armin

Reputation: 13

I guess you didn't mention any hostnames on /etc/ansible/hosts directory. You can save your hosts in /etc/ansible/hosts. Ansible looks there as a default location.

Upvotes: 1

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