Have you looked into the sshkey type already built into Puppet at https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/4.10/types/sshkey.html?
Another option or possible combination would be to look at file_line <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib#file_line> function in Puppet's stdlib package. Using that you can append a line to an existing file or replace a line based on a regex matcher. Below is an example I did to fix the LS color for a directory from dark blue to a lighter blue. file_line { 'dir_colors': path => '/etc/DIR_COLORS', line => "DIR ${dir_default_color} # directory", match => '^DIR\s*.*', replace => true, } Maybe this would better allow you to do what you want. If Puppet is managing the file then that file{} block will be auto-required before the file_line block(s) are run. You could hack it to be in your for loop or make a define that took in the file name, key to add the lines you want. Possibly something along these lines (note I didn't test this worked perfectly). You will have to provide the full path to the file for the $ssh_file parameter. define ssh::builder ( String $ssh_file, String $ssh_key, $ensure => present, ) { file_line { "${ssh_key}": line => "${ssh_key}", path => "${ssh_file}", ensure => $ensure, } } You would call it with ssh::builder { "${ssh_key_from_loop}": ensure => 'present', ssh_file => '/full/path/to/file', ssh_key => "${ssh_key_from_loop}", } The reason I used ssh_key for the title in both cases was because that will be unique, which puppet requires. Now it only assumes a single file. Now if you want to create ssh keys per user, then you would want to use the sshkey and ssh_authorized_key types to make this easier. In the ssh_key you can specify a target file. I haven't tried to see if it handles writing more than one key to the same file or not. You might want to test that first because if that works it would seriously make your code a lot simpler. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/5af2ffda-f5d2-47a7-bccb-ddf8047d02f6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
