Nigel, In the transaction there is a call to 'generate', which will look at all the resources and call generate on the ones that can respond to it. The result of generate is an array of resources that will get added to the catalog for that transaction.
In general, you should be able to add a generate method to the type/provider and return the file resource in an array. Since this is the user type, I'm interested to see Luke's opinion on the most appropriate way to do this. Regards, Andrew On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Nigel Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I'm working on changing the directoryservice provider for users so > that it doesn't use clear text passwords, but instead takes a hash. > > Mac OS X stores password hashes in separate files per user, so I was > thinking rather than repeating code Puppet already does, that it would > make sense to instantiate a File resource for the password hash file > for that user. > > I'm having trouble working out exactly how to do this. > > This sort of code seems to create the right kind of object... > > require 'puppet' > require 'puppet/type/file' > > myfile = Puppet::Type.newfile :path => "/tmp/spam", > :ensure => :file, > :backup => false, > :content => "eggs" > > > but I'm unsure how to best bring this resource actually into sync... > the write method for the file type looks promising, but requires > specifying the content again, which makes me think this is the wrong > path to take. > > Do I really need to create a stub catalog and a transaction by > applying the catalog? Is there some better way I should be doing this? > > > > -- > Nigel Kersten > Systems Administrator > Tech Lead - MacOps > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
