I'm on Centos 5 - which I assume would behave the same as Fedora. From my
testing it would seem that the default behaviour for user type is to create
if absent. I tried looking at the Puppet source to see if this behaviour
can be easily modified, but as someone who doesn't know Ruby I couldn't get
a handle on it.
On Friday, 1 June 2012 13:54:23 UTC+1, Luke Bigum wrote:
>
> On Fedora the behaviour between types is different. A file resource is
> not created if it doesn't exist:
>
> notice: Finished catalog run in 0.08 seconds
> biguml@biguml-laptop:~$ ls -ld /tmp/woof
> ls: cannot access /tmp/woof: No such file or directory
>
> biguml@biguml-laptop:~$ cat test.pp
> file { '/tmp/woof':
> owner => 'biguml',
> }
>
> A user resource is created:
>
> debug: User[woof](provider=useradd): Executing '/usr/sbin/useradd -s
> /bin/false -M woof'
> notice: /Stage[main]//User[woof]/ensure: created
> notice: Finished catalog run in 0.42 seconds
>
> biguml@biguml-laptop:~$ cat test.pp
> user { 'woof':
> shell => '/bin/false'
> }
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or feature.
>
> As for trying to get the behaviour that you want, it's a bit difficult
> without having Facts for all your existing users or using an Exec
> resource.
>
> -Luke
>
> On 01/06/12 13:43, Luke Bigum wrote:
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > What OS / provider? At first guess I'd say it's a side affect of the
> > commands the provider is using to change user attributes (useradd
> > instead of usermod?). If you run puppet with --debug you might get
> > output from the provider to see what it's doing.
> >
> > -Luke
> >
> > On 31/05/12 17:25, GriffaA10 wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have certain situations where I want to manage user attributes, if
> >> the user already exists on a system, but not actually create them if
> >> they are missing. Is there a way to do this?
> >>
> >> I tried removing the explicit "ensure => present", but this seems to
> >> have no effect (i.e. missing users still created).
> >>
> >> I am running 2.7.9.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Alan
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