Thanks for that Ygor, I appreciate the help.

On Thursday, 30 January 2014 14:33:59 UTC+10, Ygor wrote:
>
> I have a solution for this that involves a custom fact, written in Ruby, 
> for the user's homedir. 
> I will gladly post the code for the fact and the manifest code showing how 
> I use it.  However, I am posting this from home and all my Puppet code is 
> at my work.  I will post it tomorrow.
>
> One small "gotcha" that confuzzled me for a short while is that I found 
> that this custom fact does not work for a user account that is created in 
> the same puppet-agent run.  A bit of a chicken-egg dilemma: the fact 
> depends on the existance of the user, but facts are done first in an agent 
> run.  My solution is that you have the user's homedir available to you when 
> you create an account, so my ssh-key code was refactored to include the 
> homedir as an input parameter. 
>
> On Jan 29, 2014, at 11:04 PM, Andrew <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> So ...
> I am tasked with managing ssh keys for which I want to use puppet to do 
> the deployment.
> I dont know ahead of time which users will using/assigned keys so, my 
> question is.
>
> how to determine the homedir of any user? is there a variable present with 
> this info without resorting to an exec?
>
> Not all users have /home/$USER homedirs, (eg apache=/var/www, 
> puppet=/var/lib/puppet), 
>
> I need to create a .ssh dir in the users homedir and copy some private 
> keys in there. 
> The authorized_keys type includes a user property, so the public key is 
> easy.
>
> kinda stumped ...
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
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