I feel like this probably comes up a lot and is a solved problem, but my
Google-fu is failing me.
I'm using Ansible with vagrant to create development virtual machines.
The one thing that bugs me a little (and this was true with our previous
Chef-based solution as well to be fair) is that I have to log into this
system as a user called "vagrant" and I don't have my preferred dotfiles
and what-not. So this means my vim isn't the way I like it and if I do a
git commit it's going to show up in the log as "vagrant".
This is of course all solvable by copying my dotfiles over; I could even
create an account with my name. I haven't bothered to do this, because I'm
lazy to do this manually. Like most developers, I refuse to do a few
minutes of manual work if I can spend a couple of hours and make it
automated ;-) And of course this is Ansible, so it should totally be
possible to do this -- I'm just missing a bit of knowledge to make it
happen.
So if my user on the local system that I'm running ansible on is "marca" --
how do I get at this information? I couldn't find a built-in variable for
this. Reading ansible_env.USER is going to get me the USER on the *remote*
system; not what I want.
My current, possibly hacky solution is to invoke ansible-playbook
with --extra-vars="invoking_user=$USER" and then my playbook can do:
- name: Create user for invoking user
sudo: true
user: name={{ invoking_user }} comment="John Doe" uid=1040 group=admin
password=xxx
tags:
- user
- name: Set authorized_key for invoking user
sudo: true
authorized_key: user={{ invoking_user }} key="{{ lookup('file',
"/Users/marca/.ssh/id_rsa.pub") }}"
tags:
This is pretty crude, as ideally I wouldn't have to pass the --extra-vars
and ideally there would be some existing solution that sets the user,
comment, uid, group, etc. all automatically using the local values. Note
that I also want to copy my ssh key but I can't figure out how to replace
"marca" with {{ invoking_user }} -- that doesn't work, because it would
nest the double curly brace syntax so it won't get expanded. Actually it
would be even better to use $HOME but it's the same problem.
I guess the ideal would be some kind of module that replicates my local
user to the remote system, including uid and ssh key.
If there wasn't such a role/playbook available, I might write it, if I knew
how.
Would be grateful for any tips to point me in the right direction.
Marc
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