Dear Sukh,
I am siva kumar from India , I am new to the puppet and we are planing to
deploy puppet in our env. and i m learning puppet and working in basic
modules. However, i came across
http://itand.me/using-puppet-to-manage-users-passwords-and-ss ... for
user management in puppet. and i follwoed it to deploy and test in my test
servers. But , the above post no fullfilling my require ment. Could you
please share you user management Module with me it very usefull to me..
thanks in advance..
Regards,
Siva Kumar .
On Saturday, January 9, 2010 1:14:22 PM UTC-6, Sukh Khehra wrote:
> We're using local passwd/shadow files on all our linux hosts for
> authentication and manage them by defining virtual resources like the
> following and realizing them in the appropriate classes based on
> authorization requirements.
>
> @user {
> "username":
> comment => "User Name",
> uid => "65555",
> password => '$9$5/PrhlML$AttWraRXLd0ASwCq.uIss1',
> home => "/home/username",
> ensure => "present",
> gid => "65555",
> groups => ["groupname"],
> shell => "/bin/sh",
> managehome => true,
> require => [Group["groupname"]],
> membership => minimum;
> }
>
> Currently there is no way for me to directly tie puppet to ldap in our
> environment (for various non technical reasons) but I would like to keep
> the passwords synched with ldap. So I was thinking of writing a script
> to query ldap and create perhaps a csv file containing username,password
> hash, & shell values.
>
> My questions is can I have my puppet manifests, like the snippet above,
> grab the values for password and shell from an external file? ... a file
> that I create from ldap every night? I found
> "http://nephilim.ml.org/~rip/puppet/extlookup.rb"; but also wanted to ask
> the community here if that's the best way to go. Any ideas will be
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Sukh
>
>
On Saturday, January 9, 2010 1:14:22 PM UTC-6, Sukh Khehra wrote:
>
> We're using local passwd/shadow files on all our linux hosts for
> authentication and manage them by defining virtual resources like the
> following and realizing them in the appropriate classes based on
> authorization requirements.
>
> @user {
> "username":
> comment => "User Name",
> uid => "65555",
> password => '$9$5/PrhlML$AttWraRXLd0ASwCq.uIss1',
> home => "/home/username",
> ensure => "present",
> gid => "65555",
> groups => ["groupname"],
> shell => "/bin/sh",
> managehome => true,
> require => [Group["groupname"]],
> membership => minimum;
> }
>
> Currently there is no way for me to directly tie puppet to ldap in our
> environment (for various non technical reasons) but I would like to keep
> the passwords synched with ldap. So I was thinking of writing a script
> to query ldap and create perhaps a csv file containing username,password
> hash, & shell values.
>
> My questions is can I have my puppet manifests, like the snippet above,
> grab the values for password and shell from an external file? ... a file
> that I create from ldap every night? I found
> "http://nephilim.ml.org/~rip/puppet/extlookup.rb"; but also wanted to ask
> the community here if that's the best way to go. Any ideas will be
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Sukh
>
>
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