You want uid => undef
--Paul
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Tim Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a define that acts as a convenience wrapper around the user
> type and a few other things.
>
> With the 'user' type, if don't pass the uid parameter, it will default
> to let the system auto-assign it. However, passing uid => null,
> false, -1, etc all try and set a specific uid, which is obviously wrong.
>
> Am I up a creek without a paddle :)? Anybody have any idea how to do
> this?
>
> Here's what I have so far (it sucks, but it's the best I could do to
> work around):
>
> define normal_user ( $ensure = present, $comment = "Puppet created
> user", $groups = [], $default_password = false, $key_type = "ssh-rsa",
> $key_name = "puppet-installed-key", $key = false, $uid = false, $gid =
> false) {
> # how do you pass in a variable as undefined???
> if $uid {
> user { $title:
> ensure => $ensure,
> comment => $comment,
> home => "/home/$title",
> managehome => true,
> groups => $groups,
> gid => $gid,
> uid => $uid
> }
> } else {
> user { $title:
> ensure => $ensure,
> comment => $comment,
> home => "/home/$title",
> managehome => true,
> groups => $groups,
> }
> }
> if $key {
> ssh_authorized_key { $title: ensure => $ensure, type =>
> $key_type, user => $title, name => $key_name, key => $key }
> }
> if $default_password {
> default_password { $title: password => $default_password }
> }
> }
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim
>
> >
>
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