Puppet users - Oct 2012 - Can Puppet interact with perl script user input fields?

I''m trying to automate deployment of centrify-samba, which has a
adbindproxy.pl setup script attached. This script expects user input
(where 9 out of 10 options can be defaulted). Is there any way for
Puppet to preconfigure the inputs for this scripts, and mimic user
behavior by supplying this information?

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Hi,

Please, be warn that I''m not a puppet guru, and very likely what
I''m going
to tell you it''s not recommended at all.

I''ve deal with the same issue with fdisk because sfdisk did not allow
me to
do some stuff and needed to align some extra ssd drives from puppet.

exec { "run_abindproxy.pl":
  logoutput => on_failure,
  command => adbindproxy.pl <<ADBINDEOF


ADBINDEOF
  unless => ....
}

That will provide two carrier return on the expected input of
abbdindproxy.pl
If you have 4 questions, two should be hit carrier return to set default,
third should set 2 and four "on", would be:
exec { "run_abindproxy.pl":
  logoutput => on_failure,
  command => adbindproxy.pl <<ADBINDEOF


2
on
ADBINDEOF
  unless => ....
}

This works like a charm in puppet 2.7, dunno other versions. And again: I
don''t believe this is a recommended way.

Cheers

Guzman
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Jon Skarpeteig
<jon.skarpeteig@gmail.com>wrote:
> I''m trying to automate deployment of centrify-samba, which has a
> adbindproxy.pl setup script attached. This script expects user input
> (where 9 out of 10 options can be defaulted). Is there any way for
> Puppet to preconfigure the inputs for this scripts, and mimic user
> behavior by supplying this information?
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It''s probably easier in the long run to work out what that script does
and replicate those settings in your samba puppet class.

On 4 October 2012 19:34, Jon Skarpeteig <jon.skarpeteig@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I''m trying to automate deployment of centrify-samba, which has a
> adbindproxy.pl setup script attached. This script expects user input
> (where 9 out of 10 options can be defaulted). Is there any way for
> Puppet to preconfigure the inputs for this scripts, and mimic user
> behavior by supplying this information?
>
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The script is several thousand lines of code. Definitely not easier
than Guzman Braso''s suggestion :-)

Although I''m surprised that Puppet doesn''t have any supported
way of
shell interaction with scripts?

On Oct 5, 4:01 am, Peter Brown <rendhal...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> It''s probably easier in the long run to work out what that script
does
> and replicate those settings in your samba puppet class.
>
> On 4 October 2012 19:34, Jon Skarpeteig <jon.skarpet...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > I''m trying to automate deployment of centrify-samba, which
has a
> > adbindproxy.pl setup script attached. This script expects user input
> > (where 9 out of 10 options can be defaulted). Is there any way for
> > Puppet to preconfigure the inputs for this scripts, and mimic user
> > behavior by supplying this information?
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The centrify script may be thousands of lines, but it doesn''t do that
much. A lot of it is for user interaction and multiple OS stuff. At my last
company we used centrify for authentication. It was less then a dozen commands
to setup. A bit longer than that once put into puppet.

If you really want to interact with the script instead, Linux has programs for
doing this. There is no reason to duplicate this in the puppet core, when this
is not the recommended way of doing things. If the script is installing things
and puppet doesn''t know about everything that is installed and
modified, it can''t manage them. Goes against the primary design.

Steven
> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:55:55 -0700
> Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: Can Puppet interact with perl script user input
fields?
> From: jon.skarpeteig@gmail.com
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> 
> The script is several thousand lines of code. Definitely not easier
> than Guzman Braso''s suggestion :-)
> 
> Although I''m surprised that Puppet doesn''t have any
supported way of
> shell interaction with scripts?
> 
> On Oct 5, 4:01 am, Peter Brown <rendhal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It''s probably easier in the long run to work out what that
script does
> > and replicate those settings in your samba puppet class.
> >
> > On 4 October 2012 19:34, Jon Skarpeteig
<jon.skarpet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > I''m trying to automate deployment of centrify-samba,
which has a
> > > adbindproxy.pl setup script attached. This script expects user
input
> > > (where 9 out of 10 options can be defaulted). Is there any way
for
> > > Puppet to preconfigure the inputs for this scripts, and mimic
user
> > > behavior by supplying this information?
> >
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You could change the interaction in the script so it accepts command
line options.
Then it would be easy to manage with puppet.

On 5 October 2012 16:55, Jon Skarpeteig <jon.skarpeteig@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The script is several thousand lines of code. Definitely not easier
> than Guzman Braso''s suggestion :-)
>
> Although I''m surprised that Puppet doesn''t have any
supported way of
> shell interaction with scripts?
>
> On Oct 5, 4:01 am, Peter Brown <rendhal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It''s probably easier in the long run to work out what that
script does
>> and replicate those settings in your samba puppet class.
>>
>> On 4 October 2012 19:34, Jon Skarpeteig
<jon.skarpet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > I''m trying to automate deployment of centrify-samba,
which has a
>> > adbindproxy.pl setup script attached. This script expects user
input
>> > (where 9 out of 10 options can be defaulted). Is there any way for
>> > Puppet to preconfigure the inputs for this scripts, and mimic user
>> > behavior by supplying this information?
>>
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"It was less then a dozen commands to setup. A bit longer than that
once put into puppet."

Is this code available anywhere?

On Oct 5, 12:55 pm, Steven Nemetz <snem...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> The centrify script may be thousands of lines, but it doesn''t do
that much. A lot of it is for user interaction and multiple OS stuff. At my last
company we used centrify for authentication. It was less then a dozen commands
to setup. A bit longer than that once put into puppet.
>
> If you really want to interact with the script instead, Linux has programs
for doing this. There is no reason to duplicate this in the puppet core, when
this is not the recommended way of doing things. If the script is installing
things and puppet doesn''t know about everything that is installed and
modified, it can''t manage them. Goes against the primary design.
>
> Steven
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:55:55 -0700
> > Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: Can Puppet interact with perl script user
input fields?
> > From: jon.skarpet...@gmail.com
> > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
>
> > The script is several thousand lines of code. Definitely not easier
> > than Guzman Braso''s suggestion :-)
>
> > Although I''m surprised that Puppet doesn''t have any
supported way of
> > shell interaction with scripts?
>
> > On Oct 5, 4:01 am, Peter Brown <rendhal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It''s probably easier in the long run to work out what
that script does
> > > and replicate those settings in your samba puppet class.
>
> > > On 4 October 2012 19:34, Jon Skarpeteig
<jon.skarpet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I''m trying to automate deployment of
centrify-samba, which has a
> > > > adbindproxy.pl setup script attached. This script expects
user input
> > > > (where 9 out of 10 options can be defaulted). Is there any
way for
> > > > Puppet to preconfigure the inputs for this scripts, and
mimic user
> > > > behavior by supplying this information?
>
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