Hi John.
I am aware that if I say userxx ensure is present will work but what I want
is the first time create the user aNd set a default password but then when
the user changes it own pass I just wanna check if is present and not
resetting the password.

/Alfredo
On 07/05/2015 11:32 PM, "jcbollinger" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 5:17:22 AM UTC-5, Alfredo De Luca wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.
>> I am using puppet source with Hiera. I want to manage users but also I
>> want to check if an user exist before doing something else and create
>> it.
>>
>> I have a module prousers as follow:
>>
>> prousers/init.pp
>> class prousers {
>>         create_resources(user, hiera_hash('pro_user'))
>> }
>>
>>
>> then from hiera
>>
>> common.yaml
>> pro_user:
>>   bla1:
>>     ensure: 'present'
>>     comment: 'bla bla 1'
>>     managehome: 'true'
>>     uid: '1579'
>>   bla2:
>>     ensure: 'present'
>>     comment: 'bla bla 2'
>>     managehome: 'true'
>>     uid: '1014'
>>
>>
>> How can I check in the prousers module if an user exist or other checks?
>>
>>
>
> If you want to condition parts of a node's catalog on whether a given user
> exists, then
>
>    1. the condition must be based on the system's state *at the time of
>    the catalog request* (not during catalog application), and
>    2. you would accomplish it by writing a custom fact to probe that
>    user's existence and provide that information to the master.
>
> HOWEVER, it's unclear whether that's really what you want.  If the
> objective is to check whether user 'pro_user' exists so that you can create
> him if he's not already present, then that's an ineffective way to use
> Puppet.  If the point is that any node having class prousers should have
> all the users specified in the Hiera data, then natural way to approach it
> is to simply declare all those users.  As with any other resource type,
> Puppet examines the current state of each declared user (including whether
> he exists at all), and performs exactly those actions needed to bring the
> node to the target state expressed in its catalog -- no more, no less.
>
> If you want to be sure that other resources are managed only after the
> users have been put in the desired state, then that is the purpose of
> resource relationships.
>
>
> John
>
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