- name: create group 'ansible' group: name: ansible gid: 501 - name: create user 'ansible' user: name: ansible uid: 501 group: ansible home: /var/lib/ansible password: "*" # disabled password but can be accessed with SSH groups: - ansible - wheel - name: make sure ansible owns its home file: state: directory path: /var/lib/ansible owner: ansible group: ansible mode: '2755' - name: set ansible's authorized keys authorized_key: user: ansible key: '{{ item }}' path: /var/lib/ansible/.ssh/authorized_keys with_file: - public_keys/yubikey - public_keys/ansible register: ansible_keys