Ansible: Create a new user account and password using vars_promt

It will asks for the username and password for a new account right after you run the ansible playbook.

Ansible hosts.yaml

- hosts: hasnan1x
  roles:
    - common

  vars_prompt:
  - name: "group_account"
    prompt: "Enter a new account for the group"
    private: no

  - name: "group_password"
    prompt: "Enter a new password for the group"
    private: yes
    encrypt: "md5_crypt" #need to have python-passlib installed in local machine before we can use it
    confirm: yes
    salt_size: 7

Place this somewhere in your task in "common" roles.

- name: create new group account
  user: name={{group_account}} password={{group_password}}
  tags: group-pass

Test

ansible-playbook -i hosts sites.yaml -u root --ask-pass --tags group-pass