Issue #20726 has been updated by Andrew Parker.
Repro steps: on a centos6 box (built from the vagrant box http://puppet-vagrant-boxes.puppetlabs.com/centos-64-x64-vbox4210-nocm.box): <pre> > vagrant ssh > sudo su $ rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/i386/puppetlabs-release-6-7.noarch.rpm $ # enable the puppetlabs-devel repo by editing /etc/yum.repos.d/puppetlabs.repo $ yum install puppet $ puppet resource user testing ensure=present home=/home/testing managehome=true $ puppet resource user testing ensure=present home=/home/tested </pre> The second resource command fails with: <pre> Error: Could not set home on user[testing]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -d /home/tested testing -M' returned 2: Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN Options: -c, --comment COMMENT new value of the GECOS field -d, --home HOME_DIR new home directory for the user account -e, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE set account expiration date to EXPIRE_DATE -f, --inactive INACTIVE set password inactive after expiration to INACTIVE -g, --gid GROUP force use GROUP as new primary group -G, --groups GROUPS new list of supplementary GROUPS -a, --append append the user to the supplemental GROUPS mentioned by the -G option without removing him/her from other groups -h, --help display this help message and exit -l, --login NEW_LOGIN new value of the login name -L, --lock lock the user account -m, --move-home move contents of the home directory to the new location (use only with -d) -o, --non-unique allow using duplicate (non-unique) UID -p, --password PASSWORD use encrypted password for the new password -s, --shell SHELL new login shell for the user account -u, --uid UID new UID for the user account -U, --unlock unlock the user account -Z, --selinux-user new SELinux user mapping for the user account Error: /User[testing]/home: change from /home/testing to /home/tested failed: Could not set home on user[testing]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -d /home/tested testing -M' returned 2: Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN Options: -c, --comment COMMENT new value of the GECOS field -d, --home HOME_DIR new home directory for the user account -e, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE set account expiration date to EXPIRE_DATE -f, --inactive INACTIVE set password inactive after expiration to INACTIVE -g, --gid GROUP force use GROUP as new primary group -G, --groups GROUPS new list of supplementary GROUPS -a, --append append the user to the supplemental GROUPS mentioned by the -G option without removing him/her from other groups -h, --help display this help message and exit -l, --login NEW_LOGIN new value of the login name -L, --lock lock the user account -m, --move-home move contents of the home directory to the new location (use only with -d) -o, --non-unique allow using duplicate (non-unique) UID -p, --password PASSWORD use encrypted password for the new password -s, --shell SHELL new login shell for the user account -u, --uid UID new UID for the user account -U, --unlock unlock the user account -Z, --selinux-user new SELinux user mapping for the user account </pre> ---------------------------------------- Bug #20726: usermod command arguments out of order https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/20726#change-91044 * Author: Kevin Sumner * Status: Investigating * Priority: High * Assignee: * Category: user * Target version: 3.2.0 * Affected Puppet version: 3.2.0-rc2 * Keywords: * Branch: ---------------------------------------- Using 3.2.0-rc2 client pointed at a 3.2.0-rc2 server, I'm getting this: <pre> Error: Could not set home on user[nagios]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -d /var/lib/nagios nagios -M' returned 2: Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN Options: -a, --append append the user to the supplemental GROUPS (use only with -G) -c, --comment COMMENT new value of the GECOS field -d, --home HOME_DIR new home directory for the user account -e, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE set account expiration date to EXPIRE_DATE -f, --inactive INACTIVE set password inactive after expiration to INACTIVE -g, --gid GROUP force use GROUP as new primary group -G, --groups GROUPS new list of supplementary GROUPS -h, --help display this help message and exit -l, --login NEW_LOGIN new value of the login name -L, --lock lock the user account -m, --move-home move contents of the home directory to the new location (use only with -d) -o, --non-unique allow using duplicate (non-unique) UID -p, --password PASSWORD use encrypted password for the new password -s, --shell SHELL new login shell for the user account -u, --uid UID new UID for the user account -U, --unlock unlock the user account -Z, --selinux-user new selinux user mapping for the user account </pre> Notice that the -M comes after the username, nagios. That's causing the error. Downgrading the client to 3.1.1 works correctly. -- 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.
