On Saturday, November 24, 2012 10:28:44 AM UTC-6, bluethundr wrote:
>
> Is there a way using puppet to delete the home directories recursively of
> employees who have left the company?
>
> 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?
>
>
If you don't want to or can't do this via User resources, then it ought to
work to add "ensure => absent" in your second version.
Alternatively, you can always resort to
exec { "Remove ${user}'s Home":
command => "/bin/rm -rf ${home_dir}/${user}",
onlyif => "/usr/bin/test -e ${home_dir}/${user}"
}
John
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