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Hello, I use puppet with RHEL and there are some packages that aren''t in up2date/yum repositories. I need a way to get these specific RPMs installed. There''s a blog posting that describes an almost-perfect way to do it: http://www.raskas.be/blog/2007/09/10/managing-user-passwords-with-puppet-on-centos/ The only problem with his example is that the RPM will always in the /tmp directory, even after reboots. If it''s deleted for any reason, puppet puts it back. The behavior I desire is very simple. Execute these steps if p...

hi, all Its a very common use-case to set common password for user/s on all nodes, i like to know if there is any Type or Function or Recipe available in puppet which support this case? I have tried following approach but it didn''t worked; I am reading the password (md5 hash) stored in a file called "/myuserpwd.file" Approach 1: ----------------- $password =