Hi There,
The user provider allows you to manage the value of the password hash in
the shadow file.
You can see all the options available for this provider via 'puppet
describe user'.
An example would be something like:
user { username:
ensure => present,
password => 'password_hash_here',
}
To quote the puppet documentation:
**password** - The user's password, in whatever encrypted format the
local system requires.
To get all this working as you want, you may need to ensure that your
operating systems authentication configuration (ie, PAM) checks for
authentication in the right order, ie, local passwords, then kerberos, and
you should test this carefully to make sure you dont get undesired results.
Hope this helps,
K
On Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:04:47 PM UTC, Jagga Soorma wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am new to puppet and trying to figure out what is the best way to manage
> a password for a specific user in the /etc/shadow file. Most of my users
> are being authenticated to kerberos but there is a need to set a local
> password for this one account. What would be the best method to do this
> via puppet? I have built my own rpm's in the past using the chpasswd
> command but that seems like a lot more work to build a rpm everytime the
> password changes. Was hoping there was a easier/better way to do this via
> puppet.
>
> Thanks,
> -J
>
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