On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:28 AM, bluethundr <dunphy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way using puppet to delete the home directories recursively of > employees who have left the company?
Are your users managed by Puppet? If so, perhaps check out `managehome` of the user type. http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#user . Depending on the capabilities of the provider for your system, setting `managehome => true` will create/remove user home directories. > > So far I've tried: > > file { "/export/home/user": > name => "$home_dir/user", > ensure => 'absent' > } > > I also tried > > > > file{'export/home/user': > name => "$home_dir/user", > purge => true, > recurse => true, > force => true, > backup => false, > } > > But neither worked. Is there a way to do this with puppet currently? All I > could find in the googlesphere was how to create directories (and keep them > clean) with puppet but not how to destroy them. Perhaps this would be TOO > destructive a power for puppet to wield? > > Thanks > Tim > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/ffzGcfykLHIJ. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
