Issue #14454 has been reported by Joe Julian.
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Bug #14454: User group membership cannot be managed if nss uses any data
sources beyond "files"
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/14454
Author: Joe Julian
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
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Category: user
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Using this resource definition:
user { 'root':
ensure => 'present',
comment => 'root',
gid => '0',
groups => ['bin', 'daemon', 'sys', 'adm', 'disk', 'wheel'],
home => '/root',
password => '$1$CGNOIogj$cRaZjrS0Bv1dmwJ0m.kkI.',
password_max_age => '99999',
password_min_age => '0',
shell => '/bin/bash',
uid => '0',
}
This should mean that at a minimum, root it a member of the listed groups.
On some of our end-user facing machines, we add ldap authentication in
nsswitch.conf. This results in getgrent returning this list of groups:
["daemon", "sys", "adm", "disk", "wheel", "bin", "daemon", "sys", "adm",
"disk", "wheel", "Domain Admins", "Administrators", "app"]
Now this list does contain the required groups, so my expectation would be that
nothing happens.
Instead, this list is tested against /\s+/ and an error is produced because
there's a space in "Domain Admins" (useradd.rb line 18).
If we *were* making changes, instead of erroring it should either wrap the
group in quotes, or backquote the space(s). For instance, if I changed the
groups to ['bin', 'daemon', 'sys', 'adm', 'disk', 'wheel', 'mail'] so it would
need to add 'mail', it's going to error out because of Domain Admins.
If I remove that check, it's going to fail because of the space. If I call
usermod -G manually with the complete list, having Domain Admins quoted, it
works to change the "files" group memberships (adding "mail" in my example). It
does not, of course, do anything for ldap group memberships.
The nss library calls are obviously insufficient to make this work correctly.
There's no way to know what the source is for the group, and groups can be
duplicated between nss data sources.
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