Issue #7876 has been updated by Ben Hughes. Status changed from Unreviewed to Accepted Assignee set to Ken Barber
Well volunteered! (: Added Captain Documentation Nick as a watcher so he can chime in. ---------------------------------------- Bug #7876: system attribute documentation in 'user' type is ambiguous https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7876 Author: Ken Barber Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Ken Barber Category: documentation Target version: Affected Puppet version: 2.7.0rc3 Keywords: Branch: In the reference documentation for the 'user' type: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#user-3 There is a 'system' attribute which is described as: Whether the user is a system user with lower UID. Valid values are true, false. The problem - is that this documentation can be misleading to the real behaviour. It may lead people to consider that this attribute is mandatory to create users within the SYS_UID_* range from login.defs. This is simply not true by default on all systems: <pre> useradd foo1 -u 172 useradd foo2 -u 173 -r </pre> Both examples work fine - the only difference being (on Debian) that the password aging information is not added and the gid is also within the system range. I think explaining that this maps to the '-r' function might be wiser ... or at least talking about what it _really_ does is a better thing? -- 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.
