Hi,

Most likely you need to have ruby-shadow installed on the client.

Den

On 07/03/2012, at 12:11, Dominik Zyla <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 01:38, Forrie wrote:
>> I read that this doesn't always work on every OS. However, I'm on
>> RHEL, and from what I'm reading the following should correctly set /
>> etc/shadow:
>> 
>> 
>> @user { "myuser":
>> require => Group['staff'],
>> ensure => present,
>> uid => '2345',
>> gid => '90',
>> shell => '/bin/bash',
>> comment => 'myuser',
>> home => '/home/myuser',
>> managehome => true,
>> password => "$1$BfhBSUJv$ajfjgfhdskdgfljkfdglkjfdlkfd.", #
>> fake hash for this post
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> It creates the user and dependency, but doesn't touch /etc/shadow.
>> 
>> I need to be able to set this hash with the virtual user for the
>> systems we manage. Is there some workaround for this, or is my
>> syntax incorrect?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Why did you use `@file' definition instead of `file'? `@file' only creates 
> virtual resource which will not change anything in your system until you 
> refer to it using `<||>' notation. This link should clarify you this topic: 
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/virtual_resources.html
> 
> Best,
> 
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> Dominik Zyla 
> 
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