account($name, %option)

Manage user account.

 account "krimdomu",
   ensure         => "present",  # default
   uid            => 509,
   home           => '/root',
   comment        => 'User Account',
   expire         => '2011-05-30',
   groups         => [ 'root', '...' ],
   login_class    => 'staff',   # on OpenBSD
   password       => 'blahblah',
   crypt_password => '*', # on Linux, OpenBSD and NetBSD
   system         => 1,
   create_home    => TRUE,
   shell          => '/bin/bash',
   ssh_key        => "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQChUw...";

There is also a no_create_home option similar to create_home but doing the opposite. If both used, create_home takes precedence as it the preferred option to specify home directory creation policy.

If none of them are specified, Rex follows the remote system's home creation policy.

The crypt_password option specifies the encrypted value as found in /etc/shadow; on Linux special values are '*' and '!' which mean 'disabled password' and 'disabled login' respectively.

create_user($user => {})

Create or update a user.

This function supports the following hooks:

before

This gets executed before the user is created. All original parameters are passed to it.

after

This gets executed after the user is created. All original parameters, and the user's "UID" are passed to it.

get_uid($user)

Returns the uid of $user.

get_user($user)

Returns all information about $user.

user_groups($user)

Returns group membership about $user.

user_list()

Returns user list via getent passwd.

 task "list_user", "server01", sub {
   for my $user (user_list) {
     print "name: $user / uid: " . get_uid($user) . "\n";
   }
 };

delete_user($user)

Delete a user from the system.

 delete_user "trak", {
   delete_home => 1,
   force     => 1,
 };

lock_password($user)

Lock the password of a user account. Currently this is only available on Linux (see passwd --lock) and OpenBSD.

unlock_password($user)

Unlock the password of a user account. Currently this is only available on Linux (see passwd --unlock) and OpenBSD.

create_group($group, {})

Create or update a group.

 create_group $group, {
   gid => 1500,
   system => 1,
 };

get_gid($group)

Return the group id of $group.

get_group($group)

Return information of $group.

 $info = get_group("wheel");

delete_group($group)

Delete a group.