On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:36:12 +0000
Bruce Richardson wrote:
Hi Bruce,
[...]
> You could do this using a define.
I thought so.
> A resource default isn't some kind of macro that is invoked whenever
> an instance of the resource is evaluated; the code of the defaults
> declaration is evaluated in place, when it is first encountered.
> $name doesn't exist at the time you declare the defaults. (You're
> lucky you didn't do this inside a code block where $name is
> meaningful, or your error would have been hidden and produced bizarre
> side effects).
Well, I'm doing this changes on test hosts :-)
> To do what you want, the way you want to it, you would need to create
> a my_user define and put the code in there. However, there's no need
> to do it this way at all. What's wrong with just having
>
> User {
> ensure => 'present',
> provider => 'useradd',
> managed => false
> }
>
> and then
>
> user { 'at':
> managed => true
> }
>
> Is there some reason you don't want that? Hmm. Are you perhaps
> working under the mistaken assumption that a User defaults declaration
> will affect all users on the box? Because the truth is that it will
> only affect any users explicitly declared in your Puppet manifests.
No, I'm not assuming that it will affect all users.
I have a script that "translates" nis users into puppet users (we don't
want nis services in our nodes, but use autofs for its homes... long
history) So all users already have their homes if autofs is started.
But I'd like to "change" some nis users homes from that shared area and
create them locally.
So, I was wondering if I could define some regexpr at user default
for creating homes for those special users.
If it's not possible I'll add some file (dir) type for creating
those homes... it's not a big deal, I asked cause I wanted to
understand type defaults better.
Thanks for you reply.
Cheers,
Arnau
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