John the whitelist is a dynamic file create/update by administrators,
so puppetmaster don't know about whilelist's content.
I pretending to get advantage of fileserver funcionality (instead of
any other remote copy tool like rsync) in order to get centralized
copy of the file whitelist to all nodes.
Regards,
eduardo.
On 5 jul, 11:58, eduardo <erodr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks you john for your answer. I comment you something that work
> well for me.
>
> I think get a solution while reading puppet cookbook. It's based on
> run stages.
>
> I have site.pp :
>
> import 'sync_files.pp'
>
> Then, sync_files.pp is :
>
> class sync_files {
> notify { "sync whitelist file": }
> file { "/etc/puppet/whitelist":
> ensure => present,
> owner => root,
> group => root,
> mode => 644,
> source => 'puppet:///files/whitelist',
> }
>
> }
>
> And finally insert the following two sentences into class updssh
>
> stage { "first": before => Stage["main"] }
>
> class { "sync_files": stage => "first" }
>
> That's all. Testing results are good enough.
>
> Regards,
> eduardo.
>
> On 5 jul, 11:43, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 2:37:06 PM UTC-5, eduardo wrote:
>
> > > To be more clear about my first intend. it had init.pp like :
>
> > > file { "/etc/puppet/whitelist":
> > > ensure => present,
> > > source => 'puppet:///files/whitelist',
> > > }
>
> > > $users_local = split($localusers, '[,]')
>
> > > ----- facter
> > > require 'etc'
>
> > > Facter.add("localusers") do
> > > setcode do
>
> > > # Whitelist users to exclude for checking valid ssh users
>
> > > whitelist = Array.new
>
> > > File.readlines("/etc/puppet/whitelist").each { |line|
>
> > > whitelist << line.chomp
> > > }
> > > -----
>
> > > On 4 jul, 15:07, eduardo <erodr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Dears all,
>
> > > > I was testing my localusers facter by puppetmaster fileserver but i'd
> > > > got in error
>
> > > > Could not retrieve localusers: No such file or directory - /etc/
> > > > puppet/whitelist
>
> > > > I was pretending the file was served by fileserver of puppetmaster
> > > > doing in init.pp :
>
> > > > file { "/etc/puppet/whitelist":
> > > > ensure => present,
>
> > > > Just before to call a facter.
>
> > > > I don't pretty sure but seems to me a issue about workflow
>
> > > > Client pluginsync -> Client discover system Facts -> Master
> > > > compilation -> Client apply catalog -> Client report.
>
> > > > Is there any way to get a file from puppetmaster to be read it by a
> > > > facter ?.
>
> > > > If it's not, I appreciate any suggestion about it.
>
> > Facter runs after pluginsync (if enabled) and before any resources (such as
> > your whitelist file) are synchronized. It must be so because the master
> > needs the node facts to compile a catalog, and the agent uses the catalog
> > to synchronize resources.
>
> > What you are attempting to do sounds dubious, however. If the master knows
> > what users are supposed to be whitelisted (in order to provide the needed
> > file) then it shouldn't need facter to tell it.
>
> > John
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