Hoi John,
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 06:09:28AM -0700, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:15:27 PM UTC-5, erkules wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:00:10PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> > > Realizing doesn't allow overrides. To remove the user:
> > >
> > > @user ahab { ensure => absent }
> > > realize User['ahab']
> > >
> > > This may mean you need to use inheritence for the class the user is
> > defined in, creating a child class for the nodes you want to remove him on.
> > >
> >
> > Oha,
> > that sounds like putting a lot of thinking building the configuration
> > system.
> >
> >
> Indeed, yes. It is a complex task, and thinking is required.
>
> Note, by the way, that virtualization really doesn't have much to do with
> this particular issue. There are basically two ways to remove users with
> Puppet:
>
> 1. The fairly safe way: manage the user, setting ensure => absent. That
> 'ensure' parameters could be set on the actual resource declaration,
> perhaps conditionally, or it could be overridden later, such as via a
> collection.
ok,
> 2. The simple, but rather dangerous, way: use the 'resources'
> metaresource to declare that all unmanaged, non-system user accounts
> should
> be purged from the system. This has the potential to bite you -- hard --
> but it has the advantage that all you have to do is stop realizing a user
> or else not declare him at all to have him removed.
I confess I like that idea.
>
> Note that even approach (1) I designate only "fairly" safe. It is that
> because you explicitly specify all user removals, but nothing can change
> the fact that removing users is inherently risky.
>
thx a lot
erkan
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