If puppet can not fullfill this requirement, is there any other tool
or solution to solve it?

On Nov 4, 5:34 pm, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:28 AM, hywl51 wrote:
>
> > Hi, all
>
> > I want to control the user accounts on our company servers with
> > puppet. The complete requirements are the following:
>
> > 1. Assuming that one user run " useradd ...." on the server to create
> > a new account named "newuser".
> > 2. Puppet will konw the new user created soon, and restore the server
> > status to the before. That is, puppet will delete the new user.
>
> > I am not sure if puppet could fullfill this requirement. Could anyone
> > give me some advices.
>
> Puppet isn't good at requests phrased that way.  I don't use puppet to say, 
> "make X stay how it currently is".  Instead you say, "Make X be the state I 
> declare."
>
> You could push out /etc/passwd and /etc/group with Puppet, but you would need 
> to be careful.

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