Merge pull request #53 from bcoca/getent_doc_fixes

corrected and made better docs for getent
reviewable/pr18780/r1
Brian Coca 10 years ago
commit e64751b0eb

@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ module: getent
short_description: a wrapper to the unix getent utility
description:
- Runs getent against one of it's various databases and returns information into
the host's facts
the host's facts, in a getent_<database> prefixed variable
version_added: "1.8"
options:
database:
@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ options:
description:
- If a supplied key is missing this will make the task fail if True
notes:
notes:
- "Not all databases support enumeration, check system documentation for details"
requirements: [ ]
author: Brian Coca
@ -60,23 +60,23 @@ author: Brian Coca
EXAMPLES = '''
# get root user info
- getent: database=passwd key=root
register: root_info
- debug: var=getent_passwd
# get all groups
- getent: database=group split=':'
register: groups
- debug: var=getent_group
# get all hosts, split by tab
- getent: database=hosts
register: hosts
- debug: var=getent_hosts
# get http service info, no error if missing
- getent: database=services key=http fail_key=False
register: http_info
- debug: var=getent_services
# get user password hash (requires sudo/root)
- getent: database=shadow key=www-data split=:
register: pw_hash
- debug: var=getent_shadow
'''

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