Ansible Module: chage

A very minimal module to query/change user account expiration date on Linux

Inspired from John Buxton's chage module , but changed most of the code for my needs and to learn something along the way.

Features

• query and change user account expiration on Linux
• returns user expiration date

Examples

# remove an account expiration date.
- chage: user=john expire_date=-1

# display user account expiration date
- chage: user=john
  register: user
- debug: msg={{user.info.expire_date}}

Options

Most of the option names follow the fields documented in /usr/include/shadow.h and pydoc spwd.

See also man chage.

argument	alias	required	default	comments
user		yes		user name
expire_date		no	None	chage -E, --expiredate days since 1970-01-01 until account expires or date in format YYYY-MM-DD , -1 to clear the expiration date

Requirements

• chage command
• /etc/shadow file (read pwconv man page if /etc/shadow does not exist)
• root access (to read /etc/shadow file)

License

Apache 2.0

Author Information

Alex Duzsardi