Perfect!, thank you for you detailed reply.
On Oct 26, 6:47 am, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote:
> On Oct 22, 4:21 pm, Jamie <gojamieg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > CentOS 5.3 w/ updates
> > Puppet 0.25.1.rc2 (installed from source)
> > Mongrel + Nginx
>
> > Am I making a mistake or is this a bug? I've experienced this issue
> > using 0.24.8 from EPEL also.
>
> > Thu Oct 22 13:59:43 -0700 2009 //user::virtual-users_groups/User
> > [someuser]/ensure (err): change from absent to present failed: Could
> > not create user someuser: Execution of '/usr/sbin/useradd -G
> > sshusers,someuser -d /home/someuser -u 4061 -s /bin/bash -c Some User -
> > p $1$VezlG/$SSk0bJto9WNW4NRatiZJP1 -m someuser' returned 3: useradd:
> > invalid numeric argument 'someuser'
>
> > @user { "someuser":
> > ensure => "present",
> > uid => "4061",
> > groups => [ someuser, sshusers ],
> > comment => "Some User",
> > home => "/home/someuser",
> > shell => "/bin/bash",
> > managehome => "true",
> > password => '$1$VezlG/$SSk0bJto9WNW4NRatiZJP1',
> > }
>
> > class user::sshusers inherits user::virtual-users_groups {
> > realize(
> > Group["sshusers"],
> > User["someuser"],
> > )
>
> > }
>
> This is not a bug; it is a misuse of the User type's "groups"
> property. If you read useradd's docs you will find that the groups
> specified via the -g or -G argument must already be present on the
> system. You will also see that the groups specified via -G are
> *supplemental* groups, and that corresponds to the Puppet type
> reference's constraint that the 'groups' property should not include
> the user's primary group.
>
> The first thing to do is remove "someuser" from the declared
> supplemental groups. If you stop with that, then useradd will
> probably do what you want. If you want to be more explicit, however,
> then you need to declare the "someuser" group as a managed resource,
> ensure that it gets applied before the "someuser" user (use the
> "require" parameter), and specify it as the value of the user's "gid"
> property.
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