salt.modules.win_useradd¶

Module for managing Windows Users

salt.modules.win_useradd.add(name, password=None, fullname=False, description=None, groups=None, home=None, homedrive=None, profile=None, logonscript=None)¶

Add a user to the minion.

Parameters:	name (str) -- User name password (str) -- User's password in plain text. fullname (str) -- The user's full name. description (str) -- A brief description of the user account. groups (list) -- A list of groups to add the user to. home (str) -- The path to the user's home directory. homedrive (str) -- The drive letter to assign to the home directory. Must be the Drive Letter followed by a colon. ie: U: profile (str) -- An explicit path to a profile. Can be a UNC or a folder on the system. If left blank, windows uses it's default profile directory. logonscript (str) -- Path to a login script to run when the user logs on.
Returns:	True if successful. False is unsuccessful.
Return type:	bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.add name password

salt.modules.win_useradd.addgroup(name, group)¶

Add user to a group

Parameters:	name (str) -- user name to add to the group group (str) -- name of the group to which to add the user
Returns:	True if successful. False is unsuccessful.
Return type:	bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.addgroup jsnuffy 'Power Users'

salt.modules.win_useradd.chfullname(name, fullname)¶

Change the full name of the user

Parameters:	name (str) -- user name for which to change the full name fullname (str) -- the new value for the full name
Returns:	True if successful. False is unsuccessful.
Return type:	bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chfullname user 'First Last'

salt.modules.win_useradd.chgroups(name, groups, append=True)¶

Change the groups this user belongs to, add append=False to make the user a member of only the specified groups

Parameters:	name (str) -- user name for which to change groups groups (list, str) -- a single group or a list of groups to assign to the user append (bool) -- True adds the passed groups to the user's current groups False sets the user's groups to the passed groups only
Returns:	True if successful. False is unsuccessful.
Return type:	bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chgroups jsnuffy Administrators,Users True

salt.modules.win_useradd.chhome(name, home, persist=False)¶

Change the home directory of the user, pass True for persist to move files to the new home directory if the old home directory exist.

Parameters:	name (str) -- name of the user whose home directory you wish to change home (str) -- new location of the home directory persist (bool) -- True to move the contents of the existing home directory to the new location
Returns:	True if successful. False is unsuccessful.
Return type:	bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chhome foo \\fileserver\home\foo True

salt.modules.win_useradd.chprofile(name, profile)¶

Change the profile directory of the user

Parameters:	name (str) -- name of the user whose profile you wish to change profile (str) -- new location of the profile
Returns:

True if successful. False is unsuccessful. :rtype: bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.chprofile foo \\fileserver\profiles\foo

salt.modules.win_useradd.current(sam=False)¶

Get the username that salt-minion is running under. If salt-minion is running as a service it should return the Local System account. If salt is running from a command prompt it should return the username that started the command prompt.

New in version 2015.5.6.

Parameters:	sam (bool) -- False returns just the username without any domain notation. True returns the domain with the username in the SAM format. Ie: domain\username
Returns:	Returns False if the username cannot be returned. Otherwise returns the username.
Return type:	bool str

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.current

salt.modules.win_useradd.delete(name, purge=False, force=False)¶

Remove a user from the minion

Parameters:	name (str) -- The name of the user to delete purge (bool) -- Boolean value indicating that the user profile should also be removed when the user account is deleted. If set to True the profile will be removed. force (bool) -- Boolean value indicating that the user account should be deleted even if the user is logged in. True will log the user out and delete user.
Returns:	True if successful
Return type:	bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.delete name

salt.modules.win_useradd.getUserSid(username)¶

Get the Security ID for the user

Parameters:	username (str) -- user name for which to look up the SID
Returns:	Returns the user SID
Return type:	str

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.getUserSid jsnuffy

salt.modules.win_useradd.getent(refresh=False)¶

Return the list of all info for all users

Parameters:	refresh (bool) -- Refresh the cached user information. Default is False. Useful when used from within a state function.
Returns:	A dictionary containing information about all users on the system
Return type:	dict

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.getent

salt.modules.win_useradd.info(name)¶

Return user information

Parameters:	name (str) -- Username for which to display information
Returns:	A dictionary containing user information fullname username SID passwd (will always return None) comment (same as description, left here for backwards compatibility) description active logonscript profile home homedrive groups password_changed successful_logon_attempts failed_logon_attempts last_logon account_disabled account_locked password_never_expires disallow_change_password gid
Return type:	dict

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.info jsnuffy

salt.modules.win_useradd.list_groups(name)¶

Return a list of groups the named user belongs to

Parameters:	name (str) -- user name for which to list groups
Returns:	list of groups to which the user belongs
Return type:	list

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.list_groups foo

salt.modules.win_useradd.list_users()¶

Return a list of users on Windows

Returns:	list of users on the system
Return type:	list

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.list_users

salt.modules.win_useradd.removegroup(name, group)¶

Remove user from a group

Parameters:	name (str) -- user name to remove from the group group (str) -- name of the group from which to remove the user
Returns:	True if successful. False is unsuccessful.
Return type:	bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.removegroup jsnuffy 'Power Users'

salt.modules.win_useradd.rename(name, new_name)¶

Change the username for a named user

Parameters:	name (str) -- user name to change new_name (str) -- the new name for the current user
Returns:	True if successful. False is unsuccessful.
Return type:	bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.rename jsnuffy jshmoe

salt.modules.win_useradd.setpassword(name, password)¶

Set the user's password

Parameters:	name (str) -- user name for which to set the password password (str) -- the new password
Returns:	True if successful. False is unsuccessful.
Return type:	bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.setpassword jsnuffy sup3rs3cr3t

salt.modules.win_useradd.update(name, password=None, fullname=None, description=None, home=None, homedrive=None, logonscript=None, profile=None, expiration_date=None, expired=None, account_disabled=None, unlock_account=None, password_never_expires=None, disallow_change_password=None)¶

Updates settings for the windows user. Name is the only required parameter. Settings will only be changed if the parameter is passed a value.

New in version 2015.8.0.

Parameters:

name (str) -- The user name to update. password (str) -- New user password in plain text. fullname (str) -- The user's full name. description (str) -- A brief description of the user account. home (str) -- The path to the user's home directory. homedrive (str) -- The drive letter to assign to the home directory. Must be the Drive Letter followed by a colon. ie: U: logonscript (str) -- The path to the logon script. profile (str) -- The path to the user's profile directory. expiration_date (date) -- The date and time when the account expires. Can

be a valid date/time string. To set to never expire pass the string 'Never'.

Parameters:	expired (bool) -- Pass True to expire the account. The user will be

prompted to change their password at the next logon. Pass False to mark the account as 'not expired'. You can't use this to negate the expiration if the expiration was caused by the account expiring. You'll have to change the expiration_date as well.

Parameters:	account_disabled (bool) -- True disables the account. False enables the

account.

Parameters:	unlock_account (bool) -- True unlocks a locked user account. False is

ignored.

Parameters:	password_never_expires (bool) -- True sets the password to never expire.

False allows the password to expire.

Parameters:	disallow_change_password (bool) -- True blocks the user from changing

the password. False allows the user to change the password.

Returns:	True if successful. False is unsuccessful.
Return type:	bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' user.update bob password=secret profile=C:\Users\Bob
         home=\\server\homeshare\bob homedrive=U: