so the copying way of the user template is prolly not the best way?
On Jun 13, 3:24 pm, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:05 AM, vella1tj <vella...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately it is still not creating the Home folder but it is at
> > least creating the User and assigning it the proper values!!:D
>
> > I'm going to try doing a mdir to create the home folder. Let me know
> > what you think about that, here is what I have right now.
>
> > user {'user':
> > uid => 501,
> > gid => 'staff',
> > #comment => "some random comment",
> > ensure => present,
> > home => '/Users/user',
> > shell => '/bin/bash',
> > # provider => user_role_add,
> > password => 'Hash,
> > }
>
> > exec {"/usr/sbin/createhomedir -c -l -u user":
> > subscribe => User[user],
> > refreshonly => true,
> > }
>
> > The weird thing is even manually using the createdir command is not
> > working. I thought maybe their was something wrong with the OS
> > installation because its on a macbook air so I tried it on my actual
> > Imac work computer. I deleted the local admin account then ran the
> > command it created the user but not the home folder still. I forget to
> > set myself as admin so I had to have my manager su user then create
> > the folder and he was able to. So it's def the script that I wrote
> > that is not working. Thanks for your time again Nigel I do appreciate
> > it.
>
> Sometimes createhomedir is just buggy. :(
>
> If you do "man DirectoryService" you'll see the instructions for sending
> USR1 signals to the DS process for debugging and there might be something
> that leaps out when you interactively run createhomedir for the user.
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