Creating and managing users and authentication options

Managing users and authentication options is a common audit requirement. Tracking the local users and how they can authenticate is a great task that Ansible can manage. In this section, you will learn how to use the eos_user module in order to manage users and their authentication methods. Both password and SSH key authentication will be demonstrated.

In this recipe, you will create a new read-only user named ansible-ro. This user will use a standard password for authentication, and you will add public key authentication to that user using the following steps:

1. Create a new playbook called pb_users.yml:

   root@cookbook-lab:~/cookbook-lab/chapters/ch04# vi pb_users.yml
   ---
   - name: “Create New User with Ansible”
   hosts: “arista_ceos”
   tasks:
     - name: “Create the ansible-ro user with password...