On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Luke Bigum <luke.bi...@lmax.com> wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> What's wrong with letting Puppet decide on the provider automatically?
>
> user { "luke": ensure => present, home => '/home/luke', password =>
> 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz' }
>We use NIS compat mode. we have 32,000 users through NIS. Puppet tries to go through all of them. It's not usable that way. Besides which, it would give us false positives. Some users we care about are in NIS, but we specifically want them to have local definitions as well. > On 04/05/12 01:33, Philip Brown wrote: >> >> I see that there are an assorted bunch of "provider" types for resource >> type user. Are there not any "local file" providers for it? >> >> I have need of ensuring that certain local user accounts get created on >> all machines, reguardless of what the system "/bin/password" and "useradd" >> type mechanisms are set to. >> It would be really nice to find a pre-written way of handling this >> cleanly? -- 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.
