Puppet users - Aug 2011 - HP-UX user resource and shared homedir

Hi,

on HP-UX we want some users to have the same homedir.

Homedir is managed by puppet as file resource.

We now want to move the users to another primary group.

useradd.sam complains:

err: /User[XXX]/gid: change from 3 to 0 failed: Could not set gid on user[XXX]:
Execution of ''/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -F -g 0 XXX'' returned
45: Cannot modify user ''XXX'': Home directory
''/.root_home'' is shared
This error also shows up when running the mentioned command on command line.

The following usermod.sam command is working on command line:
''/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -F -d /.homedir -m -g 0 XXX''

How do I add the path and -m option to usermod for HP-UX?

I looked into provider/user/hpux.rb and found:

  def modifycmd(param,value)
    super.insert(1,"-F")
  end

so I thought to add the required parameters:

  def modifycmd(param,value)
    super.insert(1,"-F -d "+home+" -m")
  end

But this leads to another error message:

err: /User[XXX]/gid: change from 3 to 0 failed: Could not set gid on user[XXX]:
Execution of ''/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -F -d /.homedir -m -g 0
XXX'' returned 2: Unrecognized Option '' ''
Usage: usermod.sam [-p <passwd> [-u <uid> [-o]] [-g <group>
[-G <group>[,<group...> [-d <dir> [-m]] [-s <shell>] [-c
<comment>] [-f <inactive>] [-e <expire>] [-l <new
logname>] <login>

When using the above command with copy and paste everything is working as
expected.

Any help?

Regards,

Martin

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On Aug 9, 10:27 am, Martin Alfke <tux...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on HP-UX we want some users to have the same homedir.
>
> Homedir is managed by puppet as file resource.
>
> We now want to move the users to another primary group.
>
> useradd.sam complains:
>
> err: /User[XXX]/gid: change from 3 to 0 failed: Could not set gid on
user[XXX]: Execution of ''/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -F -g 0
XXX'' returned 45: Cannot modify user ''XXX'': Home
directory ''/.root_home'' is shared
> This error also shows up when running the mentioned command on command
line.
>
> The following usermod.sam command is working on command line:
> ''/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -F -d /.homedir -m -g 0 XXX''
>
> How do I add the path and -m option to usermod for HP-UX?
>
> I looked into provider/user/hpux.rb and found:
>
>   def modifycmd(param,value)
>     super.insert(1,"-F")
>   end
>
> so I thought to add the required parameters:
>
>   def modifycmd(param,value)
>     super.insert(1,"-F -d "+home+" -m")
>   end
>
> But this leads to another error message:
>
> err: /User[XXX]/gid: change from 3 to 0 failed: Could not set gid on
user[XXX]: Execution of ''/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -F -d /.homedir -m
-g 0 XXX'' returned 2: Unrecognized Option '' ''
> Usage: usermod.sam [-p <passwd> [-u <uid> [-o]] [-g
<group> [-G <group>[,<group...> [-d <dir> [-m]] [-s
<shell>] [-c <comment>] [-f <inactive>] [-e <expire>]
[-l <new logname>] <login>
>
> When using the above command with copy and paste everything is working as
expected.
>
> Any help?
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
Solution:
in type/user/hpux.rb:

  def modifycmd(param,value)
#    super.insert(1,"-F")
        cmd = [command(:modify)]
        cmd << "-F"
        cmd += add_properties
        if @resource[:allowdupe]
                cmd << "-o"
        end
        cmd << @resource[:name]
  end
end

Any suggestions whether this change should be done better?

Regards,

Martin

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