Jira (PUP-1393) modifying user fails if user is logged in

[Justin Holguin (JIRA)]

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Justin Holguin commented on an issue   Re: modifying user fails if user is logged in I agree with Rodney; this isn't a bug in Puppet because the behavior is typical for *nix systems. Closing this for now, but I do like the idea of adding an `obstruction` attribute to the user type. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1393 modifying user fails if user is logged in Just noticed (on Ubuntu 10.04 - probably valid for more OS'es) - that puppet failed to change a users homedir (the nagios user in this case) - and usermod failed to do so, because the user was logged in (the nrpe service was running). To fix this, one way would be to have a "pre-exec" and "post-exec" hook - which in this case, would be to stop and star... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.