New in version 2.0.
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
---|---|---|
cluster | Default: localhost | Name of the Vertica cluster. |
db | Name of the Vertica database. | |
expired | Sets the user's password expiration. | |
ldap | Set to true if users are authenticated via LDAP. The user will be created with password expired and set to $ldap$. | |
login_password | The password used to authenticate with. | |
login_user | Default: dbadmin | The username used to authenticate with. |
name required | Name of the user to add or remove. | |
password | The user's password encrypted by the MD5 algorithm. The password must be generated with the format "md5" + md5[password + username] , resulting in a total of 35 characters. An easy way to do this is by querying the Vertica database with select 'md5'||md5('<user_password><user_name>'). | |
port | Default: 5433 | Vertica cluster port to connect to. |
profile | Sets the user's profile. | |
resource_pool | Sets the user's resource pool. | |
roles | Comma separated list of roles to assign to the user. aliases: role | |
state |
| Whether to create present , drop absent or lock locked a user. |
Note
dbadmin
account on the host.pyodbc
, a Python ODBC database adapter. You must ensure that unixODBC
and pyodbc
is installed on the host and properly configured.unixODBC
for Vertica requires Driver = /opt/vertica/lib64/libverticaodbc.so
to be added to the Vertica
section of either /etc/odbcinst.ini
or $HOME/.odbcinst.ini
and both ErrorMessagesPath = /opt/vertica/lib64
and DriverManagerEncoding = UTF-16
to be added to the Driver
section of either /etc/vertica.ini
or $HOME/.vertica.ini
.- name: creating a new vertica user with password vertica_user: name=user_name password=md5<encrypted_password> db=db_name state=present - name: creating a new vertica user authenticated via ldap with roles assigned vertica_user: name=user_name ldap=true db=db_name roles=schema_name_ro state=present
This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.
This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.
For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.
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