Re: [Puppet Users] Re: set password to never expire for a user

2013-11-26 Thread Stuart Cracraft
password_max_age is less destructive. I chose it. On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:23:19 AM UTC-8, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Monday, November 25, 2013 5:11:13 PM UTC-6, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >> >> I have direction to use puppet >> rather than the OS and exec... >> >> > > Possibly you are looki

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: set password to never expire for a user

2013-11-26 Thread jcbollinger
On Monday, November 25, 2013 5:11:13 PM UTC-6, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > > I have direction to use puppet > rather than the OS and exec... > > Possibly you are looking for the 'expiry' User property: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/3.stable/type.html#user-attribute-expiry user { 'alice':

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: set password to never expire for a user

2013-11-25 Thread Stuart Cracraft
Notes with ++ inlined. On Monday, November 25, 2013 3:17:40 PM UTC-8, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > On 25 November 2013 23:11, Stuart Cracraft >wrote: > >> I have direction to use puppet >> rather than the OS and exec... >> > > Not quite sure I understand. Are you saying that you can write puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: set password to never expire for a user

2013-11-25 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 25 November 2013 23:11, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > I have direction to use puppet > rather than the OS and exec... > Not quite sure I understand. Are you saying that you can write puppet manifests to make all kinds of changes but you're not allowed to run 'chage -l ' to *report* what the state

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: set password to never expire for a user

2013-11-25 Thread Stuart Cracraft
I have direction to use puppet rather than the OS and exec... > On Nov 25, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Matthew Burgess > wrote: > >> On 25 November 2013 23:00, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >> Notes with ++ inlined. >> >>> On Monday, November 25, 2013 2:58:41 PM UTC-8, Matthew Burgess wrote: On 25 Novem

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: set password to never expire for a user

2013-11-25 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 25 November 2013 23:00, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > Notes with ++ inlined. > > On Monday, November 25, 2013 2:58:41 PM UTC-8, Matthew Burgess wrote: > >> On 25 November 2013 21:58, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >> >>> >>> puppet describe user >>> >>> shows password_max_age can be set to a big number wh

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: set password to never expire for a user

2013-11-25 Thread Stuart Cracraft
Notes with ++ inlined. On Monday, November 25, 2013 2:58:41 PM UTC-8, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > On 25 November 2013 21:58, Stuart Cracraft > > wrote: > >> >> puppet describe user >> >> shows password_max_age can be set to a big number which represents days >> to expiration >> for the given use

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: set password to never expire for a user

2013-11-25 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 25 November 2013 21:58, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > > puppet describe user > > shows password_max_age can be set to a big number which represents days to > expiration > for the given user. > > Unfortunately, it doesn't also say something like "infinite" for forever... > chage(1) says: "Passin