On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:51 AM, vella1tj <vella...@gmail.com> wrote:
> user {'username':
> uid => 501,
> gid => 'staff',
> comment => 'comment',
> ensure => present,
> home => '/Users/sysop',
> shell => '/bin/bash',
> managehome => true,
> password => 'hash',
> }
>
> I run the command puppet init.pp to apply it (mac osx 10.6) and I get
> "Parameter managehome failed: User provider directoryservice can not
> manage home directories at /private/ectic/puppet/init.pp:11
>
The directoryservice provider doesn't manage home directories, but it would
be reasonably easy to patch it to do so. Can you file a feature request for
us please?
>
> I looked at line 11 which is actually where the "}" is so I feel that
> can' be wrong. I believe maybe they're could be something on my test
> mac that is blocking puppet from creating the home directory.... Any
> help would be appreciated and thanks in advance for any response!
>
The error is clearly unhelpful. :(
Take out the managehome directory part and I'd put in an exec like:
exec { "/usr/sbin/createhomedir -c -l -u <username>":
subscribe => User[<username>],
refreshonly => true,
}
This is how the underlying directoryservice provider should do the home
directory creation rather than making, as it will make it from the user
template.
The problem with this is that it will only create it when the user record is
created. An alternative might be:
exec { "/usr/sbin/createhomedir -c -l -u demo":
unless => "/bin/test -d /Users/demo/Library",
}
so it will create it if the /Library folder is missing.
There are a lot of caveats here about the interaction of FileVault while the
user is logged out. Hopefully you don't have to care about that. :)
> Two of my co-workers attempted to help me, they changed a few settings
> to this:
>
> user {'username':
> uid => 501,
> gid => 'staff',
> #comment => 'comment',
> ensure => present,
> # managehome => true,
> home => '/Users/username',
> shell => '/bin/bash',
> provider => dscl,
> password => 'hash',
> }
>
> I would then get the error
> "could not find a default route. Using first non-loopback interface
> Time out seeking value for ipaddress" This is repeated multiple
> times.
> "warning: Could not retrieve fact ipadresss.
> Not believing that it was due to not pulling a ipaddress (besides
> 172)
> it was but it is still not creating the home folder even when
> managehome is not commented out.
>
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