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volker.raschekandCopilot 68ee8ebbcd fix(tasks)!: repair the broken guards in the unix user creation
Several defects accumulated in this task file and are fixed together, because they overlap in the same code paths.

The debug task was dead code. Its `msg` lacked the Jinja delimiters and would have printed the literal string
`_unix_users_btrfs_device.stdout`, and it was gated on `_unix_users_debug`, a variable that is neither defined in
defaults nor documented anywhere. It is removed instead of repaired, since the failure path already reports the device.

The four `ansible.builtin.user` tasks differed only in whether `uid` and `groups` were passed. They are collapsed into a
single task using `default(omit)`, which removes the risk that a fix lands in one of the four copies only. This also
fixes `comment`, which dereferenced `unix_user.value.name` unconditionally and aborted for every user that did not set
the undocumented and supposedly optional key.

Two conditions compared a length against zero with `>=`, which is true for any list. As a result an empty `ssh.config`
still produced a config file, and the removal counterpart never triggered. The create and remove pair for `.ssh/config`
now mirrors the one already used for `authorized_keys`.

The private key source was resolved through `{{ playbook_dir }}`, while the authorized key lookup in the template uses
the regular relative search path. Both now use the same mechanism, which is a superset of the previous location, so
existing playbook layouts keep working, and the role becomes testable from a molecule scenario.

BREAKING CHANGE:
The `.ssh` directory is only created when a user actually declares an `ssh` key, and an empty `ssh.config` list now
removes the client config instead of writing an empty one. Users who relied on the role to pre create an empty `~/.ssh`
have to declare `ssh: {}` explicitly.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <copilot@github.com>
2026-09-09 21:39:42 +02:00
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