[CentOS] Delete local user/group but not LDAP one

Fri Nov 26 05:24:48 UTC 2021
Thomas Mueller <thomas at chaschperli.ch>

On 11/26/21 00:13, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 06:36:36PM +0100, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>> I have a computer with a local user X that shadows an LDAP user of the
>>> same name (and group).
>>>
>>> I know I can use:
>>> userdel X
>>> groupdel X
>> check luserdel and lgroupdel . The prefix l is for local. :-)
> Oh, except... it's not. The l is for "libuser" — those tools are samples for
> the libuser package, https://pagure.io/libuser. And libuser absolutely can
> affect LDAP, depending on the system configuration.
>

at least it seems that save, that ansible

* 
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/modules/user.py#L625 


* 
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/modules/user.py#L640-L643 


and puppet

* 
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/main/lib/puppet/provider/user/useradd.rb#L12 


are using it, when you specify "local=yes" or "forcelocal=true".

- Thomas