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Addusers.yml

This playbook takes in a New users name and creates an account for him on all the groups specified Currently it only adds them to the sshusyes group

It sets the password as Password123 and its set to expire on first login

---
- name: Ansible Create user functionlity module demo
  hosts: all
  become: true
  vars:
    newpassword: Password123

  tasks:
    - name: Add the user primary group of sshusers
      ansible.builtin.user:
        name: "{{ username }}"
        groups: sshusers
        update_password: always
        password: "{{ newpassword|password_hash('sha512') }}"
        createhome: yes     # Defaults to yes

    - name: Expire the password
      command: passwd -e {{ username }}

To run this playbook you need to specify the extra variables username

ansible-playbook Addusers.yml --extra-vars "username=NewUser"