Thanks going to try that right now sorry that the error wasn't more
helpful.
On Jun 10, 11:09 am, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> 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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