Issue #19090 has been reported by John Julien.
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Bug #19090: User creation fails when group already exists with the same name as
the new user and no group is given to provider
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/19090
Author: John Julien
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
Assignee: John Julien
Category: user
Target version: 3.x
Affected Puppet version:
Keywords: user useradd group
Branch:
User creation fails when group already exists with the same name as the new
user and no group is given to provider
Steps to reproduce:
root@linux3 [/root]
# puppet resource group testuser ensure=present
Notice: /Group[testuser]/ensure: created
group { 'testuser':
ensure => 'present',
}
root@linux3 [/root]
# puppet resource user testuser ensure=present
Error: Could not create user testuser: Execution of '/usr/sbin/useradd -M
testuser' returned 9: useradd: group testuser exists - if you want to add this
user to that group, use -g.
Error: /User[testuser]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could not
create user testuser: Execution of '/usr/sbin/useradd -M testuser' returned 9:
useradd: group testuser exists - if you want to add this user to that group,
use -g.
user { 'testuser':
ensure => 'absent',
}
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