On Friday, June 27, 2014 9:12:52 AM UTC-7, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> "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"
>
> Write a playbook? :)
>
Yes. I would like to do this. I kinda sorta have the beginnings of
something, but it's perhaps a little clunky. My playbook has:
vars_files:
- group_vars/user.yml
and then group_vars/user.yml has my local settings:
invoking_user:
name: marca
full_name: Marc Abramowitz
uid: 502
home: /Users/marca
ssh_public_key: /Users/marca/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
and then I do this in my playbook:
tasks:
- name: Create user for invoking user
sudo: true
# debug: var=invoking_user
user:
name: "{{ invoking_user.name }}"
comment: "{{ invoking_user.full_name }}"
uid: "{{ invoking_user.uid }}"
tags:
- user
- name: Set authorized_key for invoking user
sudo: true
authorized_key:
user: "{{ invoking_user.name }}"
key: "{{ lookup('file', invoking_user.ssh_public_key) }}"
tags:
- user
I would've preferred something more automatic, but I guess I could always
have a simple Python configure.py script that generates group_vars/user.yml
> Most people would keep their dotfiles as a repo, managed centrally, rather
> than trying to discover them.
>
> It's more explicit, and translates over to Ansible easier than trying to
> discover them from some arbitrary remote system, copy them back, move them
> to the other, etc.
>
Yeah that's a good point. And in fact I do have my dotfiles in a git repo,
so maybe checking them out is better. The alternative is to rsync them from
the host running ansible.
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