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I would like to write up brief tutorial/documentation on how to manage /etc/passwd using puppet. While this may seem pretty straight forward to some...the documentation is not. We have been able to create a manifest that defines all of our users "virtually" and are able to "realize" users and add them to the system(s) running puppetd. Is there a way to simply realize all users

Hello Im just been working with puppet, the first usecase i have is to set up a system to create users and then push ssh keys on this machines in the create users .ssh files. I just started with puppet so i am a bit cluesless, Can someone push me in the right direction? Im having a centos enviorment. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet

We have resources that, from time to time, are selected to be removed (unmanaged). When it comes to ssh keys, fstab... this leaves a lot of stuff behind that we don''t want. Is there a simple way to remove the unmanaged data so we can keep the systems clean. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post

Hi! I want to manage all local user accounts on my Samba DC. So I add to my node two resources like this: resources {''user'': purge => true, unless_system_user => 999, } file {''/home'': ensure => directory, owner => ''root'', group => ''root'', mode => 0644, force => true, purge => true, recurse => true, recurselimit => 1, } Ok, after that I have only managed known accounts. But...

...uot; -- this means you can only purge resource types that accept ''ensure'' and whose ''ensure'' attribute accepts ''absent''. Users are currently somewhat special-cased: Users with a uid below 500 will never get purged. You can set ''unless_system_user'' to false to purge any unmanaged user, or set it to a different number to change the UID floor. - Export/Collect and Rails Integration Blake Bennet has completely reworked the Puppet/Rails integration, paving the way for a much more supportable feature set. The functionality is...

I''m trying to do something like this using puppet 0.24.8. define removeuser() { @ user { $name: ensure => absent } realize User["$name"] } $removelist = ["bob", "bill", "billy"] @ removeuser { $removelist : } It''s failing with "err: Could not retrieve catalog: Failed to realize virtual resources User[bob] on node