Ansible playbook to delete the user after taking backup of home directory of user
If you have user on multiple servers and want to delete them by
taking backup of home directory. You can use below Ansible
playbook. This playbook is running by root user.
# cat delete_user.yml
## Delete user "test_user" from servers
---
- hosts: db-hosts
remote_user: root
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: Take backup of home directory for user test_user
command: /bin/mv /home/test_user /home/test_user_backup
- user:
name: test_user
state: absent
remove: yes