Hi list, Sorry for the probably confusing subject, but I don’t really know how to say that better, I’ll try to explain better:
In my environment I have a requirement to remove certain local groups ( that have now been moved to remote groups ) and found out the behaviour of the module is quite strange. So what happens is: I try to remove the “support” group, which as said was a local group, and is now a remote group managed by LDAP: - group: name=support state=absent What I get back from this is an error from groupdel: groupdel: cannot remove entry 'support' from /etc/group Which I believe to be wrong as if the group does not exist in /etc/group the module should just return OK. Digging into the module code I found why this is happening ( I’m using ansible v1.9 ): group calls group_exists: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/stable-1.9/system/group.py#L413 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/stable-1.9/system/group.py#L413> defined here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/stable-1.9/system/group.py#L128 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/stable-1.9/system/group.py#L128> grp.getgrnam(’support') will return the remote group data, so group_exists returns True, hence the module runs groupdel which in turn fails as it doesn’t find the group in /etc/groups. I have found out that grp.getgrall() only returns with local groups, so I worked around that problem this way: http://fpaste.org/268435/97803144/ <http://fpaste.org/268435/97803144/> I don’t know if that can be considered a good way of handling that error, and I really don’t know if it makes sense to have that added to the upstream module. It worked for me so I thought it would be good to share ;) Thanks, Andrea -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/502173F8-28DA-4AF5-9648-ABF134BDC0C3%40andreatartaglia.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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