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I''m looking for input on building an HA configuration for ZFS. I''ve read the FAQ and understand that the standard approach is to have a standby system with access to a shared pool that is imported during a failover. The problem is that we use ZFS for a specialized purpose that results in 10''s of thousands of filesystems (mostly snapshots and clones). All versions of

I would like to creating new users on a system and assign them default passwords that are set only upon creation. I can create the users and assign default passwords with the "user" type, but puppet will continue to reset the password back to that default value even after users modify their own. I guess I could handle this with an "exec" that sets passwords only if the user

I am trying to use puppet to configure Amazon EC2 instances. The server is my own box at home. Both server and clients are Ubuntu 8.04 running puppet 0.24.5. On the client when I run: puppetd --server myserver.com --waitforcert 60 --test I get a cert to sign on the server. I sign it and run the command above again on the client. But then I get 3 errors similar to this: warning: Certificate