Perhaps I misunderstand your situation, but it seems to me that:

1) local users now
response: puppetize user/group handling via manifests

2) ldap users in future
response: move user/group handling to ldap when you start using ldap

What is your situation?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:50:17PM -0400, Christopher Wood wrote:
> If you're using ldap, why not handle groups there?
> 
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 03:48:33PM -0700, Forrie wrote:
> > I want to manage the membership of the /etc/group entry -- this is
> > just until we get things moved into LDAP -- so there aren't any
> > virtual users to be connected with it.   I had thought there was a
> > function to work with this, I could be mistaken.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Oct 17, 6:18 pm, Christopher Wood <christopher_w...@pobox.com>
> > wrote:
> > > The user type allows you to specify supplemental groups (see the groups 
> > > parameter). Is that what you were looking for?
> > >
> > > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#user
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 03:04:26PM -0700, Forrie wrote:
> > > > I have a requirement to manage membership to groups in /etc/group.
> > > > These members do not need to be virtual users.   I don't see a way to
> > > > do this through virtual users @group.   How are others doing this?
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