Puppet users - Jul 2010 - User account validation

Hello,

We use puppet to manage user accounts on the Linux platform. Logins
are authenticated with ssh keys. We don''t assign passwords to
accounts. We''d like to validate user accounts with ActiveDirectory.
Puppet will add an account only if that account is in ActiveDirectory.
It will remove the account if that account is not in ActiveDirectory.
One thought I had was to parse virtual.pp (where accounts are
sourced), check those names against AD then build a list against which
puppet could check. Before I do that, I''d like to see if someone has
already implemented a solution.

Jeff

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Hi Jeff,

Whilst I''ve never tried to get Puppet to do that level of mangling in
the past, I have had success with Likewise.

    http://www.likewise.com/products/index.php

Perhaps that can do what you''re after.

Cheers,
 - Alex

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