On Friday 26 Feb 2010 09:37:28 Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Marcello de Sousa wrote:
> > "IF homedir exists => deploy .ssh/authorized_keys , else do nothing"
>
> If you don't mind errors when you attempt to apply the manifest and the
> homedir does not exist, then you could make the authorized_keys file
> depend on something that fails if the homedir does not exist.
>
> Here's an untested example:
>
> # If the directory exists, then the "unless" clause in the exec
> # is satisfied, so the "command" does not run; but the overall
> # exec resource behaves as if it was successful, and anything that
> # requires this exec is happy.
> #
> # If the directory does not exist, then the "unless" fails, so the
> # "command" runs; but the command is "/bin/false", so the command
> # reports a failure, the overall exec resource fails, and anything
> # that requires this exec will have a failed dependency and will
> # therefore not be evaluated.
> #
> exec { "fail if $homedir does not exist":
> command => "/bin/false",
> unless => "/usr/bin/test -d $homedir",
> }
>
> file { "$homedir/.ssh/authorized_keys":
> source => "puppet:///wherever",
> require => Exec["fail if $homedir does not exist"],
> }
>
> --apb (Alan Barrett)
>
That's what I'm doing now. Generally it is sufficient to declare a file
resource
for ${home}/.ssh and depend on it. It will fail if ${home} doesn't exist.
Still, it would be nice to have something better, or at least be able to tell
puppet to ignore errors from this resource/scope.
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