Only report change when home directory is different on FreeBSD (ansib…

…le#42865)

* Only report change when home directory is different

Add tests with home: parameter

Have to skip macOS for now since there is a bug when specifying the home directory path for an existing user that results in a module failure. That needs to be fixed in a separate PR.

changelogs/fragments/user_freebsd_always_changed_bugfix.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - user - fix bug that resulted in module always reporting a change when specifiying the home directory on FreeBSD (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42484)

lib/ansible/modules/system/user.py

@@ -1010,8 +1010,9 @@ def modify_user(self):
         if self.home is not None:
             if (info[5] != self.home and self.move_home) or (not os.path.exists(self.home) and self.create_home):
                 cmd.append('-m')
-            cmd.append('-d')
-            cmd.append(self.home)
+            if info[5] != self.home:
+                cmd.append('-d')
+                cmd.append(self.home)
 
             if self.skeleton is not None:
                 cmd.append('-k')

test/integration/targets/user/tasks/main.yml

@@ -37,7 +37,13 @@
   user:
     name: ansibulluser
     state: present
-  register: user_test0
+  register: user_test0_0
+
+- name: create the user again
+  user:
+    name: ansibulluser
+    state: present
+  register: user_test0_1
 
 - debug:
     var: user_test0
@@ -54,9 +60,50 @@
 - name: validate results for testcase 0
   assert:
     that:
-      - user_test0 is changed
+      - user_test0_0 is changed
+      - user_test0_1 is not changed
       - '"ansibulluser" in user_names.stdout_lines'
 
+# https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42484
+# Skipping macOS for now since there is a bug when changing home directory
+- block:
+    - name: create user specifying home
+      user:
+        name: ansibulluser
+        state: present
+        home: "{{ user_home_prefix[ansible_system] }}/ansibulluser"
+      register: user_test3_0
+
+    - name: create user again specifying home
+      user:
+        name: ansibulluser
+        state: present
+        home: "{{ user_home_prefix[ansible_system] }}/ansibulluser"
+      register: user_test3_1
+
+    - name: change user home
+      user:
+        name: ansibulluser
+        state: present
+        home: "{{ user_home_prefix[ansible_system] }}/ansibulluser-mod"
+      register: user_test3_2
+
+    - name: change user home back
+      user:
+        name: ansibulluser
+        state: present
+        home: "{{ user_home_prefix[ansible_system] }}/ansibulluser"
+      register: user_test3_3
+
+    - name: validate results for testcase 3
+      assert:
+        that:
+          - user_test3_0 is not changed
+          - user_test3_1 is not changed
+          - user_test3_2 is changed
+          - user_test3_3 is changed
+  when: ansible_system != 'Darwin'
+
 
 ## user check
 
@@ -65,7 +112,7 @@
     name: "{{ user_names.stdout_lines | random }}"
     state: present
     create_home: no
-  with_sequence: start=1 end=5
+  loop: "{{ range(1, 5+1) | list }}"
   register: user_test1
 
 - debug:

test/integration/targets/user/vars/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+user_home_prefix:
+  Linux: '/home'
+  FreeBSD: '/home'
+  SunOS: '/home'
+  Darwin: '/Users'