Issue #7911 has been updated by Mark Shirley.

We are still having issues with adding local accounts on machines connected to 
LDAP where the user account exists in the directory.

We have upgraded to 3.2.1 on master/agent and added forcelocal => true to our 
user definitions but we noticed these messages in --debug

<code>
Debug: /User[mshirley]: Provider useradd does not support features libuser; not 
managing attribute forcelocal

Debug: /Group[mshirley]: Provider groupadd does not support features libuser; 
not managing attribute forcelocal
</code>

The run fails while trying to set guid and shells because the user account is 
not being created.

I started looking through some of the other threads and git pulls (<a 
href=https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/1442>1442</a>) and discovered 
that libuser.conf is needed and should be located in lib/puppet/util.  The 
latest source master branch includes libuser.conf in the correct directory but 
the latest RPM package on the yum repo does not contain this file. 

Issue 1, no libuser.conf included in latest <a 
href=http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/x86_64/puppet-3.2.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm>RPM</a>

I copied libuser.conf from <a 
href=https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commits/master/lib/puppet/util/libuser.conf>git
 - master</a> to lib/puppet/util and now we are no longer seeing the debug 
messages above. 

Unfortunately the user accounts are still not being created and the run fails.

I ran with --trace and now I'm getting this error.

<code>
Error: Could not set 'present' on ensure: undefined method `intern' for 
10:Fixnum at 15:/etc/puppet/modules/devusers/manifests/mshirley.pp
</code>

<a href=https://gist.github.com/mshirley/5777197>Full gist</a>

Issue 2, even with 3.2.1, forcelocal => true, and libuser.conf in the correct 
location creation of a local user account fails.

OS  Linux CentOS 6.3 x86_64<br>
Puppet pkg puppet-3.2.1-1.el6

We are using sssd for managing LDAP connectivity.

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Bug #7911: Can't handle local users in LDAP environment
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7911#change-92939

* Author: Rob Braden
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: provider
* Target version: 3.2.0
* Affected Puppet version: 
* Keywords: 
* Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/1442
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Our environment (mostly RHEL) uses LDAP for user and group administration. 
Unfortunately, we have some cases where (broken) software insists on  local 
users and groups. I'm guessing it's checking the files directly instead of 
using the proper system calls. 

Puppet won't create the user locally, as it sees the user as already existing. 
RHEL does have local versions of the user and group management commands 
(luseradd, lusermod, etc). Would there be any implications to adding a 'local' 
provider for the user type that adds support for managing local users and 
groups in an environment where most accounts are managed remotely?


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