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vertica_role - Adds or removes Vertica database roles and assigns roles to them.
New in version 2.0.
Synopsis
- Adds or removes Vertica database role and, optionally, assign other roles.
 
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- unixODBC
 - pyodbc
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| assigned_roles | 
        
        Comma separated list of roles to assign to the role.
        
       aliases: assigned_role  | 
     |
| cluster | Default: 
        "localhost"
         | 
      
        
        Name of the Vertica cluster.
         | 
     
| db | 
        
        Name of the Vertica database.
         | 
     |
| login_password | 
        
        The password used to authenticate with.
         | 
     |
| login_user | Default: 
        "dbadmin"
         | 
      
        
        The username used to authenticate with.
         | 
     
| name  
        required
         | 
      
        
        Name of the role to add or remove.
         | 
     |
| port | Default: 
        5433
         | 
      
        
        Vertica cluster port to connect to.
         | 
     
| state | 
       
  | 
      
        
        Whether to create  present, drop absent or lock locked a role.
        | 
     
Notes
Note
- The default authentication assumes that you are either logging in as or sudo’ing to the 
dbadminaccount on the host. - This module uses 
pyodbc, a Python ODBC database adapter. You must ensure thatunixODBCandpyodbcis installed on the host and properly configured. - Configuring 
unixODBCfor Vertica requiresDriver = /opt/vertica/lib64/libverticaodbc.soto be added to theVerticasection of either/etc/odbcinst.inior$HOME/.odbcinst.iniand bothErrorMessagesPath = /opt/vertica/lib64andDriverManagerEncoding = UTF-16to be added to theDriversection of either/etc/vertica.inior$HOME/.vertica.ini. 
Examples
- name: creating a new vertica role
  vertica_role: name=role_name db=db_name state=present
- name: creating a new vertica role with other role assigned
  vertica_role: name=role_name assigned_role=other_role_name state=present
  Status
This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.
Maintenance
This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.
For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.
Author
- Dariusz Owczarek (@dareko)
 
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