What about just not setting the uid? It sounds like that's what you are trying
to do.
On Jul 22, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Don Harden wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Ive been trying to figure this out on Puppet 2.5.5 but just upgraded
> to 2.6
>
> I have this in a module to make sure zabbix is installed, configured
> and running:
>
> class zabbix_agentd
> {
> user { "zabbix":
> name =>
> 'zabbix',
> ensure =>
> present,
> comment => "Zabbix Monitoring
> System",
> home => "/var/lib/
> zabbix",
> managehome =>
> false,
> shell => "/sbin/
> nologin",
> uid =>
> "109",
> }
> ..... rest of class.
>
>
> This works great on puppet clients that do not have the user zabbix,
> but on clients that already have zabbix I get error such as
>
> err: //zabbix_agentd/User[zabbix]/uid: change from 489 to 109 failed:
> Could not set uid on user[zabbix]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -u
> 109 zabbix' returned 8: usermod: user zabbix is currently logged in
>
> So it seems that I need some way of testing for user zabbix on the
> clients, but I can't figure out how. This seems such a basic and
> easy thing to do that I surprised that I have not already found the
> answer.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Don
>
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