macOS New User Ansible role

This ansible role create a new user on the target macOS system.

Used in Splinter, an opinionated provisioning tool for 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 cleartext 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' # grep filter format

License

MIT

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