Puppet users - Aug 2013 - ssh_authorized_key -- "Puppet::Util::FileType::FileTypeFlat could not write" problem -- I found an answer that worked for me

This is an extract from a defined type I use to create accounts:
<code extract>
define users::useraccount (
) {
     ......

            File {
               owner => $username,
               group => $username,
               mode  => ''0600'',
            }

            ......
          
            user { $username:
                ensure     => present,
                ....
            }

            group { $username:
                require => User[$username],
            }

            file { $userhome:
                ensure  => directory,
                require => [
                    User[$username],
                    Exec["mkdir-${username}"],
                ]
            }

            ## THE ADDITION OF THE FOLLOWING TWO RESOURCES MADE THE DIFFERENCE

            file { "${userhome}/.ssh":
                ensure  => directory,
                require => User[$username],
            }

            file { "${userhome}/.ssh/authorized_keys":
                ensure  => present,
                require => File["${userhome}/.ssh"],
            }   
<code extract>

Seems like Ruby was screaming about creating the target file when it does not
exist.

Hope this helps someone out there.

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
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