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...lo, I have a CentOS 6.0 Virtualbox VM to package as a Vagrant box for testing Puppet manifests. The problem i''m having is with the user resource type not working with CentOS. I keep having an error message when setting the password for a user. Provider useradd does not support features manages_passwords; not managing attribute password I have both ruby-shadow and shadow-utils installed which I found as a solution when googling. But it still doesn''t work. When I run the following command, it returns false. So it doesn''t seem to be installed. ruby -rpuppet -e ''puts P...

Hi, i would like to use the user provider on freebsd to manage passwords. This isn''t implemented at the moment as Luke said in Message-Id: <5FE94839-099E-43A6-A2A6-411224D9B531@madstop.com>. If you run pw with -h $fd or -H $fd you can provide a password via the file descriptor with nunber $fd (already encrypted in the latter case). I never read ruby till yesterday, but it looks

...---- $password = generate(''/bin/cat'', ''./myuserpwd.file'') user {$username: ensure => present, password => $password, } when i run the client it gives following message; ''Provider useradd does not support features manages_passwords; not managing attribute password'' I have read this; http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetRedHatCentos However, libshadow package (libshadow.so) is in /usr/local/libshadow directry. can anyone help me out please! -- M. Haris Farooque -- You received this message becaus...

Hi, is it possible to use the service resource type with a specific user ? So that the service is started with that given user instead of the puppet user starting it... Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/u6nkVpFJ_kcJ. To post

I have this config: # BL00070 - Disable NFS service {["nfs","nfslock","netfs","portmap"]: ensure => stopped, enable => false, } user {"rpc": ensure => absent, provider => "useradd" } user {"rpcuser": ensure => absent, provider => "useradd" } file

When I run puppet I see: "Provider useradd does not support features manages_passwords; not managing attribute password" [root@hostname local]# yum list installed | grep ruby-shadow ruby-shadow.x86_64 1.4.1-13.el6 @epel [root@hostname local]# ruby -rpuppet -e ''puts Puppet.features.libshadow?'' true [root@hostname lo...

Hi! I''m trying to set password for a user. I do the following: user { "username": password => ''*'', } And when I run puppet agent nothing happens. The password remains the same. But if I create a new user which doesn''t exist yet, the password is set without any problems. Is this a normal behaviour of ''user'' type? --