Jira (PUP-6159) OSX Passwords not setting under Puppet 4 and OSX

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg updated an issue   Puppet / PUP-6159 OSX Passwords not setting under Puppet 4 and OSX Change By: Henrik Lindberg Managing the passwords for local users under OSX 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 under puppet 4.4.1 fails when setting the salt, iterations and password.  Steps to re-create: Used the following command to generate a user definition and saved it to test.pp {code :java } puppet resource user test >> test.pp {code} {code: java puppet } user { 'test':   ensure     => 'present',   comment    => 'test',   gid        => '20',   groups     => ['com.apple.sharepoint.group.2'],   home       => '/Users/test',   iterations => '46948',   password   => '9690da8dd8f90f6e3fed4f267c86110e29d75e8448efdacdee9bd5cc20f81a563c9e6c6c328694fac80910ba99508cc373525ac592b87fbec0ac1a1e26a51f01873c25f2450aa78e09c8498df0f11fa930c3f655e7aeed6bc61e8475ca84297b3a2273d31974ddd232e872d9b66be82d0246d094d60155c93c6b7a27ba1aa390',   salt       => '62133b77a7aeecf506ffe99d064b3f8c068344de0a619a573a871f2fd6fe9eaf',   shell      => '/bin/bash',   uid        => '503', } {code} When running puppet apply on the following definition I get the following errors: {code} Error: "\x96" on UTF-8 Error: /Stage[main]/Main/User[test]/password: change from [old password hash redacted] to [new password hash redacted] failed: "\x96" on UTF-8 Error: "\xA7" on UTF-8 Error: /Stage[main]/Main/User[test]/salt: change from 6f13b4510093e89a0098eff8ee5d4bae3e1314ebf31064c101cd886ad8c2fab6 to 62133b77a7aeecf506ffe99d064b3f8c068344de0a619a573a871f2fd6fe9eaf failed: "\xA7" on UTF-8 Error: "\xD2" followed by "\x01" on UTF-8 Error: /Stage[main]/Main/User[test]/iterations: change from 43290 to 46948 failed: "\xD2" followed by "\x01" on UTF-8 {code} Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.13#64028-sha1:b7939e9) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.