I can't get puppet to update the password for any users that I declare, this is my manifest: user {'test1': ensure => present, password => sha1('vagrant'), shell => '/bin/bash', } I also tried with the md5() function, and with raw password hash. I am on Ubuntu 12.04, using Puppet 2.7.19, Vagrant 1.5.3. When I check /etc/shadow, all I see is ! (exclamation points where the password should be) test4:!:16183:0:99999:7::: test3:!:16183:0:99999:7::: test1:!:16183:0:99999:7::: test2:!:16183:0:99999:7::: I posted my question to stackoverflow with more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23253271/not-updating-the-user-password I also looked over this old post https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/gXpt-YjROMw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/4c1b1ad3-2d3f-41dd-8709-7bb3f83c7c21%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.