[Puppet Users] parameterized classes and variable inheritance

[Ashley Gould]

I am exploring usage of parameterized classes.  I hit a wall when
trying to override values of parameters in a node definition that 
inherits the class from a parent node.  Is there a way to do this,
or must I include the class only in the child node?

I'm hoping to avoid using subclasses, because there would have to 
be oodles of them to accomodate the all the variations between nodes.


node default {
    class { sudoers: }
}

node 'sl11lab02' inherits default {

    # this runs but does nothing
    Class[sudoers] { additional_rules => [ "$rules_uas" ] }

    # this errors with "Cannot assign to variables in other namespaces"
    #$sudoers::additional_rules = [ "$rules_uas" ]

    # this errors with "Class[Sudoers] is already defined"
    #class { sudoers: additional_rules => [ "$rules_uas" ] }
}

class sudoers (
    $default_rules    = "$rules_unixgroup",
    $additional_rules = [ "" ]
    ) {

    file { "/tmp/sudoers":
        owner   => root, group => root, mode => 440,
        content => template("sudoers/sudoers.erb"),
        notify  => Exec["check-sudoers"],
    }

    exec { "check-sudoers":
        command => "/usr/sbin/visudo -cf /tmp/sudoers && cp /tmp/sudoers 
/etc/sudoers",
        refreshonly => true,
    }

}








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-ashley

Did you try poking at it with a stick?

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