How to create a 'null' default in Ansible





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I want 'lucy' to follow the user module creators' default behaviour which is to create and use a group matching the user name 'lucy'. However for 'frank' I want the primary group to be an existing one; gid 1003. So my hash looks like this:



lucy:
comment: dog
frank:
comment: cat
group: 1003


And my task looks like this:



- name: Set up local unix user accounts
user:
name: "{{ item.key }}"
comment: "{{ item.value.comment }}"
group: "{{ item.value.group | default(undef) }}"
loop: "{{ users|dict2items }}"


This doesn't work, as undef is not recognised. Nor is anything else I can think of. 'null', 'None' etc. all fail. '' creates an empty string which is not right either. I can't find out how to do it.
Any ideas?










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    I want 'lucy' to follow the user module creators' default behaviour which is to create and use a group matching the user name 'lucy'. However for 'frank' I want the primary group to be an existing one; gid 1003. So my hash looks like this:



    lucy:
    comment: dog
    frank:
    comment: cat
    group: 1003


    And my task looks like this:



    - name: Set up local unix user accounts
    user:
    name: "{{ item.key }}"
    comment: "{{ item.value.comment }}"
    group: "{{ item.value.group | default(undef) }}"
    loop: "{{ users|dict2items }}"


    This doesn't work, as undef is not recognised. Nor is anything else I can think of. 'null', 'None' etc. all fail. '' creates an empty string which is not right either. I can't find out how to do it.
    Any ideas?










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      I want 'lucy' to follow the user module creators' default behaviour which is to create and use a group matching the user name 'lucy'. However for 'frank' I want the primary group to be an existing one; gid 1003. So my hash looks like this:



      lucy:
      comment: dog
      frank:
      comment: cat
      group: 1003


      And my task looks like this:



      - name: Set up local unix user accounts
      user:
      name: "{{ item.key }}"
      comment: "{{ item.value.comment }}"
      group: "{{ item.value.group | default(undef) }}"
      loop: "{{ users|dict2items }}"


      This doesn't work, as undef is not recognised. Nor is anything else I can think of. 'null', 'None' etc. all fail. '' creates an empty string which is not right either. I can't find out how to do it.
      Any ideas?










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      I want 'lucy' to follow the user module creators' default behaviour which is to create and use a group matching the user name 'lucy'. However for 'frank' I want the primary group to be an existing one; gid 1003. So my hash looks like this:



      lucy:
      comment: dog
      frank:
      comment: cat
      group: 1003


      And my task looks like this:



      - name: Set up local unix user accounts
      user:
      name: "{{ item.key }}"
      comment: "{{ item.value.comment }}"
      group: "{{ item.value.group | default(undef) }}"
      loop: "{{ users|dict2items }}"


      This doesn't work, as undef is not recognised. Nor is anything else I can think of. 'null', 'None' etc. all fail. '' creates an empty string which is not right either. I can't find out how to do it.
      Any ideas?







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