'Ansible: Error while passing numeric only value as user name to user module

While passing numeric only value as user name to user module an error is thrown "invalid user".

- name: "Create User Task"
    user: 
      name: "'{{ item.user }}'"
      state: present
    with_items: 
      - user: user1
      - user: user2
      - user: 333

But passing as alphanumeric like "uuu" getting passed.

Please help how i can pass numeric value to get success.

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Solution 1:[1]

This seems not to be an Ansible Issue itself and not related to programming at all but to the operating system, see

And even if it is possible to have numeric only user names under some circumstances, there will be other restriction later as in Ansible Issue #66544 "file module wrongly interprets numeric username as UID".

At minimum this seems to be non-intuitive behavior that should be documented. It is perfectly POSIX "legal" to have usernames that are integers.

We don't plan to add support for this, but should document it.

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