definitely helps! that's the road I was just researching, but it helps to
verify that I'm on the right track. :)
Thanks!
- Allen
On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 5:06:15 PM UTC-7, Allen Myers wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have shell script that generates a hash of user accounts that need to be
> created/maintained
> by puppet. In my manifest I'm calling it using the generate() function:
>
> $myusers = generate ('/bin/sh', '-c', '/path/to/my/script.sh')
>
> The output of the script looks like:
>
> { 'user1' => { name => 'user1', ensure => present, gid
> => xxxx, home => '/home/user1', managehome => true, purge_ssh_keys =>
> true, shell => '/bin/bash',}, 'user2' => { name => 'user2', ensure =>
> present, gid => xxxx, home => '/home/user2', managehome => true,
> purge_ssh_keys => true, shell => '/bin/bash',},}
>
> then I call create_resources as
>
> create_resources (user, $myusers)
>
> and when I run 'puppet agent --test' on the client I get
>
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server:
> Error 400 on SERVER: create_resources(): second argument must be a hash at
> /etc/puppet/environments/mgmt/manifests/01-all-nodes.pp:38 on node server1
>
> If I comment out the create_resources and add the line
>
> validate_hash ($myusers)
>
> then it fails with
>
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server:
> Error 400 on SERVER: "{ 'user1' => { name => 'user1', ensure => present,
> gid => xxxx, home => '/home/user1', managehome => true, purge_ssh_keys
> => true, shell => '/bin/bash',}, 'user2' => { name => 'user2', ensure =>
> present, gid => xxxx, home => '/home/user2', managehome => true,
> purge_ssh_keys => true, shell => '/bin/bash',},}" is not a Hash. It
> looks to be a String at
> /etc/puppet/environments/mgmt/manifests/01-all-nodes.pp:38 on node server1
>
> Yet, if I take the output of the script and just put it directly into the
> manifest, it works fine; ie,
>
> $myusers = { 'user1' => { name => 'user1', ensure =>
> present, gid => xxxx, home => '/home/user1', managehome => true,
> purge_ssh_keys => true, shell => '/bin/bash',}, 'user2' => { name =>
> 'user2', ensure => present, gid => xxxx, home => '/home/user2',
> managehome => true, purge_ssh_keys => true, shell => '/bin/bash',},}
> create_resources (user, $myusers)
>
> and it works.
>
> So, based on the error messages, it's obvious that the generate() function
> is returning the string data type. Can I force it to return the hash data
> type?
> Or is there a way to convert a string to a hash?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Allen
>
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