Introduction Today we're going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about the user module bug and possible workaround. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot Demo The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live Playbook to show you practically the user module bug triage and possible workaround! error code - userbug_error.yml ```yaml --- - name: user module Playbook hosts: all become: true vars: myuser: "example" tasks: - name: password expiration ansible.builtin.user: name: "{{ myuser }}" password_expire_min: 7 password_expire_max: 90 ``` error execution ```bash $ ansible-playbook -i Playbook/inventory troubleshooting/userbug_error.yml.yml PLAY [user module Playbook] ********************************************************************************** TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************************************** ok: [demo.example.com] TASK [password expiration] ******************************************************************************* changed: [demo.example.com] PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************************************** demo.example.com : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i Playbook/inventory user\ expiration/user.yml PLAY [user module Playbook] ********************************************************************************** TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************************************** ok: [demo.example.com] TASK [password expiration] ******************************************************************************* ok: [demo.example.com] PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************************************** demo.example.com : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 ansible-pilot $ ssh devops@demo.example.com Last login: Mon Nov 8 17:09:16 2021 from 192.168.43.5 [devops@demo ~]$ sudo su [root@demo devops]# chage -l example Last password change : Nov 08, 2021 Password expires : Feb 06, 2022 Password inactive : never Account expires : never Minimum number of days between password change : 0 Maximum number of days between password change : 90 Number of days of warning before password expires : 7 ``` We expected a `7` value for `Minimum number of days between password change` but we obtain `0`. Troubleshoot - [bug report - user module can't handle password expiration parameters correctly #75017](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75017) - [pull request - user module password expiration fixes #75390](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75390) workaround - userbug_workaround.yml ```yaml --- - name: user module Playbook hosts: all become: true vars: myuser: "e