On Nov 11, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Nigel Kersten 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?
As Andrew indicates, resources can generate other resources, either
before or during the transaction (use 'generate' for pre-transaction
and 'eval_generate' for mid-transaction).
There aren't a lot of examples of this right now (maillist uses
generate, files use eval_generate), but it's pretty simple and getting
simpler.
Basically, you just create the resources and return them from the
method.
The big difference between the two methods is that pre-transaction
generated resources get sorted using relationships like any other
resource, but mid-transaction resources are too late for that. Thus,
the mid-transaction resources just proxy all of their events through
their generating resource, but the pre-transaction resources can have
normal relationships.
For your purposes, you might as well use 'generate', but it doesn't
look like it matters.
I'd make sure you set 'ensure' correctly, though.
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