I'm trying to get Puppet 2.6.7 working on NetBSD 5. It looks like there hasn't been much progress with Puppet on the NetBSD platform - the pkgsrc version is still at 0.25.5.
The main problem I'm having is with puppetmasterd. When I try to start it, it complains: # puppetmasterd Could not prepare for execution: Could not find a default provider for user # Looking this error up, I see the answer in the past has been to install a Ruby library called "ruby-shadow" or "ruby-libshadow" to give Puppet access to the password database, in particular the encrypted passwords of users. But ruby-shadow / libshadow don't seem to want to compile on NetBSD. Looks like they use some Linux-specific library calls. I also found someone asking why usermod/userdel/userinfo could not be used as a user provider in BSD - the reply they got was that there was no way to see the encrypted password. But in NetBSD 5, the "userinfo" command does show you the encrypted password. So I looked through lib/puppet/provider/user/useradd.rb and it looks like the ruby-shadow stuff is only called for password_min_age, password_max_age, and retrieving the encrypted password. It looks like the NetBSD 5 "userinfo" command can do most of that: # userinfo bin login bin passwd * uid 3 groups bin change NEVER class gecos Binaries Commands and Source,,, dir / shell /bin/false expire NEVER Any suggestions on how to put this together? As you might guess, I'm new to Puppet and working with Ruby. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
