Jira (PUP-2647) Windows user provider reports that the password is created instead of changed

[William Hopper (JIRA)]

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William Hopper commented on an issue   Re: Windows user provider reports that the password is created instead of changed Functional review: verified at latest build (SHA 640ec9c1e18257c4680c8f1bbe4ea39339fdcc53) in Windows 2008R2 x86: In build 640ec9c1 from builds.puppetlabs Using the following manifest: user { 'someuser': name => 'someuser', password => 'hunter2', } The first run of puppet apply manifest.pp produces: PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop> puppet apply .\manifest.pp   Notice: Compiled catalog for fqdn in environment production in 0.27 seconds Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/User[someuser]/ensure: created Notice: Applied catalog in 0.03 seconds ... and changing the manifest to specify: password => '*******' results in the following second run: Notice: Compiled catalog for fqdn in environment production in 0.27 seconds Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/User[someuser]/password: changed password Notice: Applied catalog in 0.03 seconds Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2647 Windows user provider reports that the password is created instead of changed If you change an existing user's password on Windows, puppet reports: {noformat} Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/User[testing6]/password: created password {noformat} If the desired password doesn't match current password, the windows_adsi provider's {{#password}} method returns :absent, to force the provider to apply the new password. But this causes pu... 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.