We had a standard user on many Linux systems across the estate that was used for a certain purpose.
Now the project was over we needed to remove them all, the easiest way I thought was a simple ansible playbook, put all the hosts in the hosts file and leave it to run.
Below is the code should you ever need to use it, I have changed the username from the real one to protect the innocent.
---
- name: Drop THE user
hosts: droptheuser
user: root
vars:
tasks:
- name: Drop the User
user:
name: username
state: absent
remove: yes
tags:
drop_user
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