Issue #6693 has been updated by Patrick Mohr.
William Van Hevelingen wrote: > The two commands `net user` and `net group` can do basic user and group > management. We also need some sort of Active Directory provider for managing > domain users and groups. According to this article, using those commands to delete can cause problems: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215 Quoted from that page: > This issue may occur if the user profile was manually deleted by using the > command prompt or by using Windows Explorer. A profile that is manually > deleted does not remove the security identifier (SID) from the profile list > in the registry. > WARNING: Microsoft recommends AGAINST making this the standard way of > removing user profiles from machines. The documented and supported approach > is using the Advanced System Settings in the system properties, "User > Profiles" settings. **For applications, this facility is available using the > "DeleteProfile" API.** ---------------------------------------- Bug #6693: Windows Error message: Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and directories in sections [:main, :agent, :ssl]: Could not find a default provider for user https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6693 Author: T.J. Yang Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: windows Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Windows 2003 64bit, Windows 2008, Puppet Branch: Please see Test Case 1 and 2 for detail steps at [puppet windows support wiki page][1] to reproduce this error. [1]:http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Puppet_Windows -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
