[Puppet Users] Adding external users, and home directories that depend on them, in the same run

2010-07-11 Thread Craig Box
I am using Puppet to configure Ubuntu machines as LDAP clients, which makes a variety of external users available to my machines, and then attempting to create home directories with SSH keys for some of those users that I have just 'added'. (At this point we are not sharing/ automounting /home.)

[Puppet Users] Re: Adding external users, and home directories that depend on them, in the same run

2010-07-11 Thread Craig Box
A small update: turns out nscd is optional, so I've set apt to not require recommends, and now I can get this sequence: - install libnss-ldapd, libpam-ldapd and nslcd - install ldap-auth-config & various config files - run auth-client-config, which sets up the PAM config files to include LDAP us

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 2.6.0 - Release Candidate 2 available!

2010-07-11 Thread James Turnbull
Welcome back again to the Puppet release cycle with the long-awaited eleventy times better RC2 release. The 2.6.0 release is a major feature release and includes a huge variety of new features, fixes, updates and enhancements. These include the complete cut-over from XMLRPC to the REST API, numer