On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 04:31:38PM +0100, Ken Barber wrote: > The user resource won't clean up home directories directories for you. > In fact there was a feature request to rename the attribute for this > very reason: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7002 > > It was originally pegged in the original managehome feature request > many years back but never made it in: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/432 > > I'd raise a ticket on it if you feel its important.
After a few career trips to backups because somebody accidentally purged a userid, I will never use automatic home directory purging in anything I set up. If anybody else wants to open that particular chainsaw-juggling ticket, that is their issue and not mine. Thank you, though. ;) > For now, you can always manage the home directory yourself. Its not > uncommon for users to create their own user management defined > resource that wraps user (and other site specific user bits). This > resource would also manage the home directory using a file resource > and therefore allow removal. > > Of course this is purely a work-around but probably worth mentioning > in any ticket that is raised. > > ken. > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Christopher Wood > <christopher_w...@pobox.com> wrote: > > 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 > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Puppet Users" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > >> > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- > "Join us for PuppetConf, September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR: > http://bit.ly/puppetconfsig"; > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
