Puppet users - Jan 2010 - Making puppet only update /etc/users and /etc/groups on solaris

Hi,

We use ldap in compatibility mode and I would like to ensure users ad
groups for service accounts are in the local files database.

Puppet uses getpwent etc all to access user and group information.

I saw issue #708 but I don''t believe there is any progress on this.

This Is what I did as a workaround:

mkdir /puppetroot
mount -F lofs / /puppetroot

mount -F lofs /puppetroot/etc/nsswitch.files /puppetroot/etc/
nsswitch.conf

mount -F lofs /puppetroot/dev/null /puppetroot/var/run/
name_service_door


in "/opt/sfw/lib/svc/method/svc-puppetd"
chroot /puppetroot /opt/sfw/sbin/puppetd

now puppet isnt aware of ldap for users and groups

I don''t know if this workaround would work for linux I will try that
another day.

I would love to help with a parsed files provider for users and groups
as this seems far more sensible.
I''m new to ruby so getting arround the source is a bit of a challenge
at the moment though.

Thanks

Peter

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