On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 04:48:09AM -0700, michaelkrieg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> currently we're confused and quite unhappy with the Puppet user
> management. It is possible to create users, make sure they're present
> and so on. But: if you'd like to delete an user completely this seems
> not be possible. Setting the directive "ensure" to "absent" deletes
> the user from /etc/passwd/shadow/group - but the $HOME directory still
> exists.
> 
> What is wrong here?

Have you tried to use managehome => true when you set ensure => absent?

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#user-3

(Also check that your provider supports homedir management?)
 
> Regards,
> Michael
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