Issue #17638 has been updated by eric sorenson. Status changed from Unreviewed to Investigating Assignee set to Nick Chappell
I think this seems reasonable, if there's >1 provider that supports it. Feel like working up a patch? ---------------------------------------- Feature #17638: Ability to pass "-f" or "--force" options to user providers https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/17638#change-84073 Author: Nick Chappell Status: Investigating Priority: Normal Assignee: Nick Chappell Category: provider Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: The user resource should have the ability to specify a -f or --force option for the various user providers so that UID/GID changes or user deletions can be forced even if the user has processes currently running. It could be implemented with something like this: <pre> User { ‘nick’: ensure => absent, force => true, #the normal options for user resources would go here } </pre> Currently, if a user has processes running, a user deletion fails with an error similar to what is below (userdel binary on RHEL/CentOS): <pre> puppet-agent[4217]: (/User[xxxxxx]/ensure) change from present to absent failed: Could not delete user xxxxxx: Execution of '/usr/sbin/userdel xxxxxx' returned 8: userdel: user xxxxxx is currently logged in </pre> The errors depend on the OS-specific providers that are called by Puppet. On a Solaris 10 machine, sysmgr gives the following error through Puppet if there is a UID/GID change and the user is logged in: <pre> change from 1117 to 133 failed: Could not set uid on user[sysmgr]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -u 133 sysmgr' returned 8: usermod: user sysmgr is currently logged in </pre> -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
