Puppet users - Jan 2010 - Problem in Setting User Password

hi, all

Its a very common use-case to set common password for user/s on all 
nodes, i like to know if there is any Type or Function or Recipe 
available in puppet which support this case?
I have tried following approach but it didn''t worked;

I am reading the password (md5 hash) stored in a file called 
"/myuserpwd.file"

Approach 1:
-----------------
$password = generate(''/bin/cat'',
''./myuserpwd.file'')
user {$username:
                 ensure => present,
                 password => $password,
}

when i run the client it gives following message;

''Provider useradd does not support features manages_passwords; not 
managing attribute password''

I have read this; 
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetRedHatCentos

However, libshadow package (libshadow.so) is in /usr/local/libshadow 
directry.

can anyone help me out please!
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M. Haris Farooque

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> ''Provider useradd does not support features manages_passwords; not
> managing attribute password''
>
> I have read this;  
> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetRedHatCentos
>
> However, libshadow package (libshadow.so) is in /usr/local/libshadow  
> directry.
>
> can anyone help me out please!
is ruby-shadow installed and loadable?

http://www.raskas.be/blog/2007/09/10/managing-user-passwords-with-puppet-on-centos/

cheers pete

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Thanks for your response,

No, I don''t have ruby shadow installed on the clients.

but is there any other approach to set the password because if i installed
the ruby shadow package then i have to rebuild the rpm and for some
administrative reasons we have to avoid building this RPM again.

Muhammad Haris Farooque




On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Peter Meier <peter.meier@immerda.ch>
wrote:
>  ''Provider useradd does not support features manages_passwords;
not
>> managing attribute password''
>>
>> I have read this;
>> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetRedHatCentos
>>
>> However, libshadow package (libshadow.so) is in /usr/local/libshadow
>> directry.
>>
>> can anyone help me out please!
>>
>
> is ruby-shadow installed and loadable?
>
>
>
http://www.raskas.be/blog/2007/09/10/managing-user-passwords-with-puppet-on-centos/
>
> cheers pete
>
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> No, I don''t have ruby shadow installed on the clients.
>
> but is there any other approach to set the password because if i installed
> the ruby shadow package then i have to rebuild the rpm and for some
> administrative reasons we have to avoid building this RPM again.
not if you want to set the password using the resource. you can work  
around it using an exec (like you can for most resources, but  
shouldn''t). Building your own rpms is something you''re
entering very
fast using uptodate ruby projects. Puppet-people are doing a great job  
in keeping these dependencies down to minimum, however some things a  
hardly to knock out.

cheers pete

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