On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 at 15:04 Felix Frank <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 03/06/2015 02:45 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
> > file { '/export': ensure => 'directory' }
> > file { '/export/home': ensure => 'directory' }
> > user { 'foo': home => '/export/home/foo' } # This probably needs to come
> > after /export/home, otherwise the user will get a nasty surprise when
> > they first login
> >
> > Sure, I *can* create the user without having the directory in place. But
> > what good does that do anyone?
>
> Ah, a misunderstanding. It had actually not occured to me that users
> might manage the $HOME dir as a file resource as well, and that we
> should autorequire that. I'm all caught up in autorequiring the parent.
>
> And yes, both these things do make sense. I see no issues with adding
> the relationship to either homedir or parent. (It's parent+1 that makes
> no sense, but we agree on that as well).
>
Won't the $HOME file resource autorequire the user resource already? At
least if $HOME is owned by $USER, which it usually is. So then you would
get a dependency loop.
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