Use a virtual resource ?
It will not be created unless you explicitly realize it.
You can centrally manage a collection of virtual users on your Puppet Master,
creating only those you want on the nodes you want them on.
Does that satisfy your requirement ?
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----- GriffaA10 <alan.griffi...@interoute.com> wrote:
> 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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