On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM, vella1tj <vella...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I haven't got on top of debugging the createhomdir but I just
> wanted to let you know how we got the command to work. this is the
> exec as follows
>
> exec {'username':
> command =>"cp -R /System/Library/templateuser/English.lproj/ /
> Users/username/",
> path =>"/bin/",
> #everything else that we where using has been commented out.
> }
>
> The path command was key and one of my managers was just screwing with
> it and got it to work. The manifests are different a little bit
> because i went in and changed the "User Template" to "templateuser"
> because i thought puppet was having a hard time on the files with
> spaces. Just thought you would want to know. Again thank you so much
> you are awesome Nigel, if there is anything I could do for you just
> let me know:)
>
Thank you for the kind words, but making more Mac Puppet users is enough :)
I'd be a bit careful of the above command though. You may not end up with
the permissions your users expect, particularly on the "Public" and
"Public/DropBox" folders.
>
> On Jun 13, 3:53 pm, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:48 PM, vella1tj <vella...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > so the copying way of the user template is prolly not the best way?
> >
> > That's basically one of the underlying things createhomedir does, but
> you're
> > not going to actually be setting up directories with the correct
> > permissions/ACLs, which could be a problem.
> >
> > Especially in later versions of OS X, createhomedir problems have often
> been
> > a symptom of another directory service related issue in my experience, so
> > I'd definitely do some debugging first.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > > 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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