PR #1651 fixed issue #1515 but the requirement for path to be defined is unecessarily strict. If the user has previously been created a path isn't necessary.
This change is in response to issue #1515.
Original pull request #1580.
The original problem is: in authorized_key module you have no idea about users
which will be created by Ansible at first run. I can propose next two ways to
solve this problem:
1. Combine modules system/user.py and system/authorized_key.py in one module
(so you will know everything about users in that module)
2. Use small workaround: add my commit and always provide 'path' parameter
for authorized_key module during runs with --check option.
I tried a playbook with the following (accidentally wrong) task:
tasks:
- name: authorized key test
authorized_key: key=/home/sam/.ssh/id_rsa.pub key_options='command="/foo/bar"' user=sam
I got the following traceback:
TASK: [authorized key test] ***************************************************
failed: [localhost] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/sam/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1427110003.65-277897441194582/authorized_key", line 2515, in <module>
main()
File "/home/sam/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1427110003.65-277897441194582/authorized_key", line 460, in main
results = enforce_state(module, module.params)
File "/home/sam/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1427110003.65-277897441194582/authorized_key", line 385, in enforce_state
parsed_new_key = (parsed_new_key[0], parsed_new_key[1], parsed_options, parsed_new_key[3])
TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
With this fix, I see the expected error instead:
TASK: [authorized key test] ***************************************************
failed: [localhost] => {"failed": true}
msg: invalid key specified: /home/sam/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
This option allows the module to ensure that ONLY the specified keys
exist in the authorized_keys file. All others will be removed. This is
quite useful when rotating keys and ensuring no other key will be
accepted.
Brian Coca
Veaceslav (Slava) Mindru
Greg DeKoenigsberg
Marius Gedminas
Simon Li
Александр Костырев
verm666
Sam Thursfield
Dag Wieers
Edward Larkey
Toshio Kuratomi
Jesse Keating
Jeff Gonzalez
Fabrice Bernhard
Michael DeHaan