Jira (PUP-1949) Add user_attributes type (only modifies existing users)

[Tim Diels (JIRA)]

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Tim Diels commented on an issue   Re: Add user_attributes type (only modifies existing users) On second thought, this can be resolved with an exec { 'chsh'} , and for most attributes it can be resolved with exec {'usermod'} . Those are sufficiently cross-platform for my needs. If adding anything, it'd probably be better to go with a type per attribute: user_shell_attr, user_group_membership, ... to encapsulate the cross-platform provisions. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1949 Add user_attributes type (only modifies existing users) To avoid a too coarse dependency, I suggest addition of the following type: user_attributes. It allows modifying existing users, but never creates/deletes them. This then allows e.g.: {code} class shell {   file {'/etc/zshrc':     ensure => 'present',     owner => 'root',   } }   class shell::user {   require shell   user_attributes {'root... 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/d/optout.