Puppet users - Mar 2011 - Use puppet to preconfigure gnome gvfs shares

Hello,
I''m looking for a neat solution for this kind of need: we''re
looking
for a way to deploy pre-configured gnome workstations on a large
corporate network. The most interesting tool is sabayon, but it is not
allowing to pre-populate nautilus bookmarks with gvfs samba shares
(having a preconfigured set of shares for the users is a very easy
task on Windows AD domains).

The easiest way seems to push a predefined .gtk-bookmarks file into
the /home/<username> directory, further customized for his network
share (i.e. //myserver/<username>/share).

Here''s the problem: how to instruct puppet to generate a customized
file with the interpreted <username> variable, and how to tell puppet
to place this file in /home/<username>?
Ideally, the file should be created only at first login to avoid
existing bookmarks to be overwritten...

Alternative solutions are obviously welcome!

Thank you!

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Am 31.03.2011 15:19, schrieb spidernik84:
> Here''s the problem: how to instruct puppet to generate a
customized
> file with the interpreted<username>  variable, and how to tell puppet
> to place this file in /home/<username>?
> Ideally, the file should be created only at first login to avoid
> existing bookmarks to be overwritten...
The problem is not very clear to me. Do you just try to manage a file with a 
variable in it''s path name?

Given that the target username is already present as a variable in the 
manifest, you''d just write:

file {
   "/home/${username}/path/to/file":
     content => template("path/to/template")
}

given that the template makes use of the $username variable too. If you need 
the same procedure for more than one user, wrap the whole thing into a define. 
Add ''replace => false'' to make this a one-shot operation.

Did I get the problem right? Did I miss something?

Regards

Christian

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On Mar 31, 9:36 pm, Christian Kauhaus <k...@gocept.com>
wrote:
> Am 31.03.2011 15:19, schrieb spidernik84:
> Did I get the problem right? Did I miss something?
Hi Christian,
thanks for the reply.

I would like to have puppet handle the whole process automatically,
without manually specifying the user.
The steps would be roughly these:

1. puppet detects the logged in username and sets this as a variable
2. puppet outputs a customized .gtk-bookmarks file with the network
paths inside, in this format
smb://domain.com;johndoe@url.of.the.server/home$/johndoe
Johndoe share
3. puppet saves this file as /home/johndoe/.gtk-bookmarks

What''s the meaning of all this? We''re about to deploy Ubuntu
10.04 LTS
workstations on a big corporate network, thus we would like to
automate the set-up of the Gnome desktop. We need the users to find
the shares already setup at their first login, no matter what''s the
username. We used gconftool to setup systemwide settings like lock
screen after screensaver startup and so on, but shares can''t be
managed by gconftool.
Using puppet to write a customized version of the .gtk-bookmarks
depending on the user seemed feasible, but I''m open to alternatives.

Thanks!

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Am 01.04.2011 11:11, schrieb spidernik84:
> 1. puppet detects the logged in username and sets this as a variable
> 2. puppet outputs a customized .gtk-bookmarks file with the network
> paths inside, in this format
smb://domain.com;johndoe@url.of.the.server/home$/johndoe
> Johndoe share
> 3. puppet saves this file as /home/johndoe/.gtk-bookmarks
I don''t think that Puppet is designed to support this sort of
interactive
behavior. I''d rather suggest to deploy a custom shell script via Puppet
that
performs the outlined actions on a user''s first login. For example,
pam_exec
is providing this functionality. Something in /etc/profile (or your login 
shell''s equivalent) would also be feasible.

Regards

Christian

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On Apr 2, 8:58 pm, Christian Kauhaus <k...@gocept.com>
wrote:
> Am 01.04.2011 11:11, schrieb spidernik84:
> I don''t think that Puppet is designed to support this sort of
interactive
> behavior. I''d rather suggest to deploy a custom shell script via
Puppet that
> performs the outlined actions on a user''s first login. For
example, pam_exec
> is providing this functionality. Something in /etc/profile (or your login
> shell''s equivalent) would also be feasible.
Thank you Christian,
this is for sure an interesting option. I''ll investigate further.

Regards,
Nicola

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