community.mongodb.mongodb_user – Adds or removes a user from a MongoDB database

Note

This plugin is part of the community.mongodb collection (version 1.3.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.mongodb.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.mongodb.mongodb_user.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.mongodb

Synopsis

  • Adds or removes a user from a MongoDB database.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • pymongo

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
auth_mechanism
string
    Choices:
  • SCRAM-SHA-256
  • SCRAM-SHA-1
  • MONGODB-X509
  • GSSAPI
  • PLAIN
Authentication type.
connection_options
list / elements=raw
Additional connection options.
Supply as a list of dicts or strings containing key value pairs seperated with '='.
create_for_localhost_exception
path
This is parmeter is only useful for handling special treatment around the localhost exception.
If login_user is defined, then the localhost exception is not active and this parameter has no effect.
If this file is NOT present (and login_user is not defined), then touch this file after successfully adding the user.
If this file is present (and login_user is not defined), then skip this task.
database
string / required
The name of the database to add/remove the user from.

aliases: db
login_database
string
Default:
"admin"
The database where login credentials are stored.
login_host
string
Default:
"localhost"
The host running MongoDB instance to login to.
login_password
string
The password used to authenticate with.
Required when login_user is specified.
login_port
integer
Default:
27017
The MongoDB server port to login to.
login_user
string
The MongoDB user to login with.
Required when login_password is specified.
name
string / required
The name of the user to add or remove.

aliases: user
password
string
The password to use for the user.

aliases: pass
replica_set
string
Replica set to connect to (automatically connects to primary for writes).
roles
list / elements=raw
The database user roles valid values could either be one or more of the following strings: 'read', 'readWrite', 'dbAdmin', 'userAdmin', 'clusterAdmin', 'readAnyDatabase', 'readWriteAnyDatabase', 'userAdminAnyDatabase', 'dbAdminAnyDatabase'
Or the following dictionary '{ db: DATABASE_NAME, role: ROLE_NAME }'.
This param requires pymongo 2.5+. If it is a string, mongodb 2.4+ is also required. If it is a dictionary, mongo 2.6+ is required.
ssl
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether to use an SSL connection when connecting to the database.
ssl_ca_certs
string
The ssl_ca_certs option takes a path to a CA file.
ssl_cert_reqs
string
    Choices:
  • CERT_NONE
  • CERT_OPTIONAL
  • CERT_REQUIRED
Specifies whether a certificate is required from the other side of the connection, and whether it will be validated if provided.
ssl_certfile
string
Present a client certificate using the ssl_certfile option.
ssl_crlfile
string
The ssl_crlfile option takes a path to a CRL file.
ssl_keyfile
string
Private key for the client certificate.
ssl_pem_passphrase
string
Passphrase to decrypt encrypted private keys.
state
string
    Choices:
  • absent
  • present
The database user state.
update_password
string
    Choices:
  • always
  • on_create
always will always update passwords and cause the module to return changed.
on_create will only set the password for newly created users.
This must be always to use the localhost exception when adding the first admin user.

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: Create 'burgers' database user with name 'bob' and password '12345'.
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: bob
    password: 12345
    state: present

- name: Create a database user via SSL (MongoDB must be compiled with the SSL option and configured properly)
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: bob
    password: 12345
    state: present
    ssl: True

- name: Delete 'burgers' database user with name 'bob'.
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: bob
    state: absent

- name: Define more users with various specific roles (if not defined, no roles is assigned, and the user will be added via pre mongo 2.2 style)
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: ben
    password: 12345
    roles: read
    state: present

- name: Define roles
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: jim
    password: 12345
    roles: readWrite,dbAdmin,userAdmin
    state: present

- name: Define roles
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: joe
    password: 12345
    roles: readWriteAnyDatabase
    state: present

- name: Add a user to database in a replica set, the primary server is automatically discovered and written to
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    database: burgers
    name: bob
    replica_set: belcher
    password: 12345
    roles: readWriteAnyDatabase
    state: present

# add a user 'oplog_reader' with read only access to the 'local' database on the replica_set 'belcher'. This is useful for oplog access (MONGO_OPLOG_URL).
# please notice the credentials must be added to the 'admin' database because the 'local' database is not synchronized and can't receive user credentials
# To login with such user, the connection string should be MONGO_OPLOG_URL="mongodb://oplog_reader:oplog_reader_password@server1,server2/local?authSource=admin"
# This syntax requires mongodb 2.6+ and pymongo 2.5+
- name: Roles as a dictionary
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    login_user: root
    login_password: root_password
    database: admin
    user: oplog_reader
    password: oplog_reader_password
    state: present
    replica_set: belcher
    roles:
      - db: local
        role: read

- name: Adding a user with X.509 Member Authentication
  community.mongodb.mongodb_user:
    login_host: "mongodb-host.test"
    login_port: 27001
    login_database: "$external"
    database: "admin"
    name: "admin"
    password: "test"
    roles:
    - dbAdminAnyDatabase
    ssl: true
    ssl_ca_certs: "/tmp/ca.crt"
    ssl_certfile: "/tmp/tls.key" #cert and key in one file
    state: present
    auth_mechanism: "MONGODB-X509"
    connection_options:
     - "tlsAllowInvalidHostnames=true"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
user
string
success
The name of the user to add or remove.



Authors

  • Elliott Foster (@elliotttf)
  • Julien Thebault (@Lujeni)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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