Puppet users - Sep 2012 - Installing packages that require user input (e.g. NIS) ?

Hi all

I would like to install NIS, but how do I handle such a package which 
prompts for user input, when "apt-get install nis" is done on Ubuntu?

Hugs,
Sandra

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On Sep 12, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Sandra Schlichting wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I would like to install NIS, but how do I handle such a package which
prompts for user input, when "apt-get install nis" is done on Ubuntu?
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figure out if nis packages support having an ''answer'' file
available to provide the input for those questions and if so, have puppet put
the file into place prior to installing the packages.

Also, fwiw - I don''t use NIS but I do use LDAP everywhere and I have
found that asserting control and content over the configuration files
(/etc/nsswitch.conf and others - primarily /etc/pam.d files), that the answers
to the post-install configuration script are already handled.

Craig

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>
> figure out if nis packages support having an ''answer''
file available to
> provide the input for those questions and if so, have puppet put the file 
> into place prior to installing the packages. 
>
Great. It does. Thanks =)

These links were useful

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
http://serverfault.com/questions/228266/how-do-i-generate-a-response-file-to-be-used-with-apt-get-or-aptitude

apt-get install nis
debconf-get-selections | grep nis > nis.seed
--edit nis.seed--
debconf-set-selections nis.seed


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