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Removing Cisco IOS users with ansible

I'm trying to use ansible to remove some old users on Cisco IOS switches and routers. The ansible task is currently failing due to the fact that IOS prompts the user on the CLI to confirm if they want to remove the username. Any way around this with ansible?

Here is a CLI example

SW01(config)#no username admin
This operation will remove all username related configurations with same name.Do you want to continue? [confirm]

ansible task

  tasks:
    - name: Remove username
      ios_command:
         commands: no username admin
Solution

  • Use ios_user module. Look here for more details: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/ios_user_module.html#ios-user-module

    Example:

    - name: Delete a user account
  ios_user:
    name: "neo"
    state: absent