On 23 December 2010 09:30, Felix Frank <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/23/2010 12:42 AM, Jonathan Barber wrote:
>> On 22 December 2010 19:38, deet <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hello good people.
>>> Env: puppet 2.6.4, facter 1.5.8
>>>
>>> I'm trying to set a variable in a defaults resource like this. In
>>> the password attribute I set the $name variable which I hoped would be
>>> the the user name. I can see now that this evaluates to the class
>>> name. Are their any other approaches to get the variable to evaluate
>>> to the user name. I tried using an inline template and qualifying the
>>> variable but couldn't get the user name. I figured it was an error in
>>> my inline template.
>>
>> You can't do this at the moment, hopefully in the future you will be able to:
>> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5061
>
> That issue is similar, but the problem here is related more strongly to
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5259
Ah, I vaguely remembered this ticket but conflated them when I looked for it.
I see the point you make in the ticket; would there be similar
problems with having a variable with a different name representing the
same concept? I guess it would be quite a a large change in how
variable scoping works, so wouldn't be very clean from that point of
view.
I was thinking of a macro system as a solution, but then I saw that
the puppet wiki glossary suggests defines can be considered as a type
of macro - so I guess that is the way to do it.
Cheers
> So I have to say - hopefully this is *not* going to be possible any time
> soon.
>
>> For now, you have to create a define to wrap the user in (untested):
>> define my_user {
>> user { $name:
>> ...
>> password => generate('/site/bin/grabass.rb', '-u', $name),
>> }
>> }
>
> I agree with this completely.
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
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