Re: [Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-15 Thread jcbollinger
On Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 9:05:24 AM UTC-5, LinuxDan wrote: > Your response makes perfect sense. I am planning to use FreeIPA/Red Hat > Identity Manager which uses SSSD to do everything you describe for your > house. > > I want to be able to manage aspects of the user home

Re: [Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-15 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi Dan, I understand your request, but I'm not sure it is best performed by the puppet agent directly. As you are not controlling from puppet which users exist on which servers, it would probably make sense to take a indirect approach and use puppet to ship a permission fixing script and a cron

Re: [Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-14 Thread 'Dan White' via Puppet Users
I believe I am going to abandon user resources with an ldap provider, because I cannot get it to even attempt a connection. I tried to create a user on the puppet server itself using "puppet apply" The output of the run complains that    Provider ldap is not functional on this host and    Could

Re: [Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-14 Thread 'Dan White' via Puppet Users
On August 14, 2019 at 9:01 AM, jcbollinger wrote: Why would you not want to write to the data store backing your User resources?  If you cannot write, then you cannot manage resources -- neither create new ones nor modify existing ones nor remove unwanted ones.  These things are what User

Re: [Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-14 Thread jcbollinger
On Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 5:35:13 AM UTC-5, LinuxDan wrote: > > On August 14, 2019 at 5:15 AM, Martin Alfke > wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > On 14. Aug 2019, at 04:12, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users < > puppet...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > > > On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Garrett Honeycutt >

Re: [Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-14 Thread 'Dan White' via Puppet Users
On August 14, 2019 at 5:15 AM, Martin Alfke wrote: Hi Dan, On 14. Aug 2019, at 04:12, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users wrote: On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Garrett Honeycutt wrote: On 8/13/19 6:10 PM, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users wrote: On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:04 PM, 'Dan White' via Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-14 Thread Martin Alfke
Hi Dan, > On 14. Aug 2019, at 04:12, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users > wrote: > >> On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Garrett Honeycutt >> wrote: >> >>> On 8/13/19 6:10 PM, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users wrote: >>> On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:04 PM, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users >>>

Re: [Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-13 Thread 'Dan White' via Puppet Users
> On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Garrett Honeycutt > wrote: > >> On 8/13/19 6:10 PM, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users wrote: >> On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:04 PM, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users >> mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com>> >> wrote: >> >>> Is there any current documentation about how to create

Re: [Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-13 Thread Garrett Honeycutt
On 8/13/19 6:10 PM, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users wrote: > On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:04 PM, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users > mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com>> > wrote: > >> Is there any current documentation about how to create user resources >> with an ldap provider ? > > Let me be a bit more

Re: [Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-13 Thread 'Dan White' via Puppet Users
> On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:04 PM, 'Dan White' via Puppet Users > wrote: > > Is there any current documentation about how to create user resources with an > ldap provider ? Let me be a bit more specific on this question. I am looking for the setup details to allow Puppet to get the user

[Puppet Users] LDAP ? User type provider documentation ? Hiera Back End ?

2019-08-13 Thread 'Dan White' via Puppet Users
Is there any current documentation about how to create user resources with an ldap provider ? A working hiera ldap backend would also be nice to have. —- "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it