Puppet users - Dec 2012 - RHEL/Oracle Linux - user creation.

I am trying to write a manifest that does not create the home directory for 
the user as it will be on a NAS volume.  It seems that RHEL/Oracle requires 
your explicitly to use the "-M" options. Is there a way to do this
with
puppet? 

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user resource use  managehome attribute to decide if need to create home 
directory. 
and it''s default value is false, just try, you can check the results.

On Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:38:07 AM UTC+8, mi...@mikerochford.com 
wrote:
>
> I am trying to write a manifest that does not create the home directory 
> for the user as it will be on a NAS volume.  It seems that RHEL/Oracle 
> requires your explicitly to use the "-M" options. Is there a way
to do this
> with puppet? 
>
>
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Also make certain that your shadow-utils package is up to date.  Older package
version had an issue where they didn''t allow puppet to handle non-local
user names very well.  If your home directories are on a NAS, then I suspect
that you might be running into a similar issue as well.  I found that updating
shadow-utils seemed to fix the issue.

John Guthrie
jguthrie@book.com
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Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: RHEL/Oracle Linux - user creation.

user resource use  managehome attribute to decide if need to create home
directory.
and it''s default value is false, just try, you can check the results.

On Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:38:07 AM UTC+8, mi...@mikerochford.com wrote:
I am trying to write a manifest that does not create the home directory for the
user as it will be on a NAS volume.  It seems that RHEL/Oracle requires your
explicitly to use the "-M" options. Is there a way to do this with
puppet?

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It looks like I need to file a bug report as Oracle change the name of
their linux distribution.

<snippet /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/user/useradd.rb t>
def check_manage_home
    cmd = []
    if @resource.managehome?
      cmd << "-m"
    elsif %w{Fedora RedHat CentOS OEL
OVS}.include?(Facter.value(:operatingsystem))
      cmd << "-M"
    end
    cmd
  end
</snippet>

<facter output>
ol6-3:~ # facter operatingsystem
OracleLinux
ol6-3:~ #
</facter output>

-Mike
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:58 PM, John Guthrie <jguthrie@book.com>
wrote:
> Also make certain that your shadow-utils package is up to date.  Older
package version had an issue where they didn''t allow puppet to handle
non-local user names very well.  If your home directories are on a NAS, then I
suspect that you might be running into a similar issue as well.  I found that
updating shadow-utils seemed to fix the issue.
>
> John Guthrie
> jguthrie@book.com
> ________________________________________
> From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [puppet-users@googlegroups.com] on
behalf of 刘长元 [liucy1983@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 10:02 PM
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: RHEL/Oracle Linux - user creation.
>
> user resource use  managehome attribute to decide if need to create home
directory.
> and it''s default value is false, just try, you can check the
results.
>
> On Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:38:07 AM UTC+8, mi...@mikerochford.com
wrote:
> I am trying to write a manifest that does not create the home directory for
the user as it will be on a NAS volume.  It seems that RHEL/Oracle requires your
explicitly to use the "-M" options. Is there a way to do this with
puppet?
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On 12/30/12 9:47 PM, Mike Rochford wrote:
> It looks like I need to file a bug report as Oracle change the name of
> their linux distribution.
> 
> <snippet /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/user/useradd.rb
t>
> def check_manage_home
>     cmd = []
>     if @resource.managehome?
>       cmd << "-m"
>     elsif %w{Fedora RedHat CentOS OEL
> OVS}.include?(Facter.value(:operatingsystem))
>       cmd << "-M"
>     end
>     cmd
>   end
> </snippet>
> 
> <facter output>
> ol6-3:~ # facter operatingsystem
> OracleLinux
> ol6-3:~ #
> </facter output>
> 
> -Mike
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:58 PM, John Guthrie <jguthrie@book.com>
wrote:
>> Also make certain that your shadow-utils package is up to date.  Older
package version had an issue where they didn''t allow puppet to handle
non-local user names very well.  If your home directories are on a NAS, then I
suspect that you might be running into a similar issue as well.  I found that
updating shadow-utils seemed to fix the issue.
>>
>> John Guthrie
>> jguthrie@book.com
>> ________________________________________
>> From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [puppet-users@googlegroups.com] on
behalf of 刘长元 [liucy1983@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 10:02 PM
>> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: RHEL/Oracle Linux - user creation.
>>
>> user resource use  managehome attribute to decide if need to create
home directory.
>> and it''s default value is false, just try, you can check the
results.
>>
>> On Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:38:07 AM UTC+8, mi...@mikerochford.com
wrote:
>> I am trying to write a manifest that does not create the home directory
for the user as it will be on a NAS volume.  It seems that RHEL/Oracle requires
your explicitly to use the "-M" options. Is there a way to do this
with puppet?
>>
Thanks for bringing this up. We were able to get this fixed and merged
in master for release in 3.1.0. You could back port by checking out the
small changes from the commit[1].

[1] - https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/1359/files

-g

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