Hi, there
Im looking into the same thing. Did you come up with a decent solution?
Regards
Bjørn Dyresen
2009/9/28 Eric Gerlach <egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca>
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:08:37AM +0200, Kenneth Holter wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> >
> > I've defined a virtual user "kenneth", and depending on a variable in the
> > node definiton I'd like to add the users to different groups. Consider
> this
> > example:
> >
> > ###### Code start
> >
> > node "server.example.com" {
> > $server_type = "typeA"
> >
> > realize User[kenneth]
> >
> > }
> >
> > @user {"kenneth":
> > ensure => present,
> > uid => 1000,
> > gid => 1000,
> > groups => $server_type ? {
> > typeA => "wheel",
> > default => undef,
> > },
> >
> > home => "/home/kenneth",
> > shell => "/bin/bash",
> > comment => "A comment",
> > password => '<something>'
> >
> > }
> >
> > ###### Code end
> >
> > If I add the user to an ordinary class (like "class user_kenneth")
> instead
> > of defining it as a virtual resource, everything works fine. But when
> using
> > a virtual definition like this, the variable "server_type" doesn't seem
> to
> > have any effect on the if statement "groups". Am I doing something wrong,
> or
> > is this not supposed to work? I'm running version 0.24.4.
>
> I've been off for over a week, so I just noticed you never got an answer to
> this question. The variables are filled out at the time the virtual
> resource
> is defined, not at the time it's realized.
>
> You might be able to do something like:
>
> realize User[kenneth]
>
> User[kenneth] {
> groups => $server_type ? {
> typeA => "wheel",
> default => undef,
> }
> }
>
> to realize it the way you want. Haven't tried anything like that though.
> Maybe someone else can comment if it works.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator
> Federation of Students
> University of Waterloo
> p: (519) 888-4567 x36329
> e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca
>
> >
>
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