I've been trying to get a puppet-master config together to push selected
user accounts to puppet clients, but I've not been able to figure out how
to pull their password and other data out of the password database on the
server side to replicate to the clients. In short I want to do something
like:
user { $username:
...
password => "ypmatch $username passwd | cut -f 2 -d :",
...
}
but that runs the "ypmatch" on the client, which isn't useful. Then I
found the "generate" function, but apparently "generate" can be called with
only one argument (spaces are excluded from the characters "generate" will
take). I tried:
user { $username:
...
password => generate("/path/getuserpasswd.sh $username"),
...
}
but that gets an error due to the space (getuserpaswd.sh is just a shell
script that does the ypmatch expecting $1 to be the username).
So in short, is there any way to do this? Using shell-like syntax I want:
user { $username:
...
password => `ypmatch $username passwd | cut -f 2 -d :`,
...
}
Any help would be most appreciated.
-Jeff
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