Issue #22778 has been updated by Zachary Stern.

Status changed from Duplicate to Re-opened

I do not believe this is a duplicate. As per my discussions with Jill Burrows, 
the user and group resources still uses `getent` to check if a user or group 
already exists, and this will always include the "remote" users/groups.

Does the `forcelocal` parameter actually work around that in some way? If that 
is the case, then you can mark this as duplicate once again.

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Feature #22778: Puppet user resource should read only from local databases
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/22778#change-98797

* Author: Zachary Stern
* Status: Re-opened
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: 
* Target version: 
* Affected Puppet version: 
* Keywords: customer
* Branch: 
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Currently, the puppet user type uses `getent` to get information about user 
resources.

The problem with this is that `getent` will also report information from LDAP 
and other remote user management services that are configured in nsswitch.conf, 
which are not actually managed by Puppet.

This can cause Puppet to think a user is in a local group, or not in a local 
group, when the opposite is true.

This is especially problematic since we user the useradd suite of commands to 
actually manage the settings, which of course affect local users/groups only. 

Puppet's user type should have some way of examining only local users and 
groups, to check if something is currently true/present/etc.


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