Before I go and write yet another custom fact, I just want to be sure that the behavior I''m seeing is "as designed" rather than a regression. When I ran 2.6.1, I had the following snippets working as expected: base/manifests/minimal.pp: class {"ssh::sshd_config": stage => post} ssh/manifests/init.pp: class ssh::sshd_config { service{"sshserver": name => $operatingsystem ? { Solaris => "/network/ssh", default => "sshd" }, ensure => running } file{"/etc/ssh/sshd_config": content => template("ssh/sshd_config.erb"), notify => Service["sshserver"], owner => root, group => root, mode => 0644, } } ssh/template/sshd_config.erb: <% my_login_groups = [''root'', ''wheel'', ''sysadmin''] my_login_groups << ''netdb'' if classes.index(''bind::server'') != nil my_login_groups << ''jira'' if classes.index(''jira'') != nil my_login_groups << ''archiva'' if classes.index(''archiva'') != nil my_login_groups << ''maven'' if classes.index(''maven'') != nil my_login_groups << ''oinstall'' if classes.index(''oracle'') != nil my_login_groups << ''dba'' if classes.index(''oracle'') != nil my_login_groups << ''puppet'' if classes.index(''puppet::master'') != nil my_login_groups << ''jboss'' if classes.index(''jboss'') != nil my_login_groups << ''nagios'' if classes.index(''nagios::server'') != nil %> AllowGroups <%= my_login_groups.join('' '') %> IN 2.6.1, this generated an AllowGroup stanza based on the complete set of classes assigned to any given puppet client. In 2.6.3, however, when the template is parsed classes contains *only* the classes that were included in minimal.pp before the ssh:sshd_config stanza. I was under the impression that the intention was that evaluation order wasn''t supposed to matter, so toplevel variables like classes should be *complete* before any templates are evaluated. If this *is* the desired behavior then I''ll just create a custom fact that will extract the data from the classes.txt file on the client which will be fugly but functional. If it''s not, let me know and I''ll open a bug report. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.