[Puppet Users] Re: Having trouble getting puppet to set users/groups to a defined state

2012-05-16 Thread jcbollinger
On May 15, 1:23 pm, Steve Roberts strob...@strobe.net wrote: I've contacted the person at puppetlabs we have been working with to get his take on things.  may even be part of a professional services implementation for him at this point. I hope that your contact will be able to help you work

[Puppet Users] Re: Having trouble getting puppet to set users/groups to a defined state

2012-05-15 Thread jcbollinger
On May 14, 9:05 pm, Steve Roberts strob...@strobe.net wrote: On Apr 30, 6:10 am, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: It is conceivable that providers for Windows or OS X, which use different primary keys for their user and group databases, could be given special parameters that

[Puppet Users] Re: Having trouble getting puppet to set users/groups to a defined state

2012-05-15 Thread Steve Roberts
On May 15, 9:19 am, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: That's excellent advice, but regardless of POSIX, there is a wide variety of real-world systems that do not enforce such a constraint, and there are many machines that have users and/or groups with duplicate IDs.  Therefore

[Puppet Users] Re: Having trouble getting puppet to set users/groups to a defined state

2012-05-14 Thread Steve Roberts
On Apr 30, 6:10 am, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: On Apr 27, 6:21 pm, Steve Roberts strob...@strobe.net wrote: Ah.  No.  You're still missing a critical aspect of this situation: independent of the system tools used (useradd, etc.), the UNIX architecture provides username /

[Puppet Users] Re: Having trouble getting puppet to set users/groups to a defined state

2012-04-30 Thread jcbollinger
On Apr 27, 6:21 pm, Steve Roberts strob...@strobe.net wrote: On Apr 18, 6:46 am, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: On Apr 17, 5:04 pm,SteveRobertsstrob...@strobe.net wrote: On Apr 17, 6:25 am, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: well, allowdupe doesn't fix the

[Puppet Users] Re: Having trouble getting puppet to set users/groups to a defined state

2012-04-27 Thread Steve Roberts
On Apr 18, 6:46 am, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: On Apr 17, 5:04 pm,SteveRobertsstrob...@strobe.net wrote: On Apr 17, 6:25 am, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: well, allowdupe doesn't fix the issue only masks it.  I knew about taht attribute but it just adds a

[Puppet Users] Re: Having trouble getting puppet to set users/groups to a defined state

2012-04-18 Thread jcbollinger
On Apr 17, 5:04 pm, Steve Roberts strob...@strobe.net wrote: On Apr 17, 6:25 am, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: well, allowdupe doesn't fix the issue only masks it.  I knew about taht attribute but it just adds a duped group instead of making right the user/group. Indeed, but

[Puppet Users] Re: Having trouble getting puppet to set users/groups to a defined state

2012-04-17 Thread jcbollinger
On Apr 16, 10:03 pm, Steve Roberts strob...@strobe.net wrote: I'm hoping I'm just missing something simple. I ran across this in my deployment setup and have replicated in a simple set of manifests.  command output and the manifests below. basically start with a user/group name but it had

[Puppet Users] Re: Having trouble getting puppet to set users/groups to a defined state

2012-04-17 Thread Steve Roberts
On Apr 17, 6:25 am, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: On Apr 16, 10:03 pm, Steve Roberts strob...@strobe.net wrote: I thought one of the key ideas for puppet was the ability to define a manifest and puppet would make the machine look like that manifest. That is correct.  Another