On Jun 7, 8:29 am, Jistan Idiot <jistanid...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I discovered yesterday that if puppet changes the gid of a group it > doesn't go through the file system and update them with the new correct gid > (at least this was the case on RHEL5 and client puppet v2.6.16 and > puppetmaster 2.7.12). Now I thought that it might be possible to have > puppet execute something like find /home/ -group <old_gid> | xargs chgrp > groupname. However it isn't quite that simple. First it needs to be run > after the change, so I had to put it in a new stage that runs after main. > After that everything was all good. > > I have some issues with this solution. First the find takes forever to > run. I'm not sure there's any way around this. > > Second, it required some manual intervention and foreknowledge of the > problem. What if I don't know someone had manually created a group with > the wrong gid? I was thinking maybe creating a custom function that could > be called whenever there's a refresh on a group and use the old and new > gids to run the command. Hopefully someone can show me how to do this as I > haven't figured it out (and not sure it is a good way to do this). > > Finally, I don't think this is going to work for the next thing I want to > tackle. I have a group of websevers that I'm going to start managing with > puppet. The uids and gids are not consistent across them. I'm going to > want puppet to fix that since there are way too many to do manually. > > For example: > > groupname old_gid new_gid > groupA 1572 1863 > groupB 1861 1572 > groupC 1863 1861 > > I'm thinking that would just be a horrible nightmare with what I did > before. In this example all the old 1572 items would be 1863 when the fix > for groupC is run. Is there some way to fix this problem? > > Thanks in advance.
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