[Puppet Users] Re: Question about passwords

2009-04-30 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2009-Apr-29, at 6:22 PM, josbal wrote: If a user1 on server1 has uid 502 and in puppet i define user1 to have uid 500. When i add server1 to puppet, will puppet be able to change all the file permissions associated with user1? Or will it orphan all of user1's files? On many systems, if

[Puppet Users] Re: Question about passwords

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Renfro
On 4/29/2009 7:24 AM, Rob McBroom wrote: A related question I have: How do you assign an initial password when the account is created, but prevent Puppet from making that the password every 30 minutes (should the user want to change it)? I think the vast majority of people use Puppet to

[Puppet Users] Re: Question about passwords

2009-04-29 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2009-Apr-29, at 10:41 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Rob McBroom mailingli...@skurfer.com wrote: You can get an example for your particular system by running this as root: ralsh user username Note that to read an existing password hash, you'll

[Puppet Users] Re: Question about passwords

2009-04-29 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2009-Apr-29, at 11:58 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: hah. I did actually read that, but I didn't express myself well. I meant to point out explicitly that on OS X say, if you run this as non-root, you'll get a user resource definition back, it just won't contain the password. Ah, OK.

[Puppet Users] Re: Question about passwords

2009-04-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Rob McBroom mailingli...@skurfer.com wrote: On 2009-Apr-29, at 11:58 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: hah. I did actually read that, but I didn't express myself well. I meant to point out explicitly that on OS X say, if you run this as non-root, you'll get a user

[Puppet Users] Re: Question about passwords

2009-04-29 Thread josbal
Thanks guys, This is what i was after. This ralsh thing makes thing alot easier :) Cheers. On Apr 30, 5:45 am, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Rob McBroom mailingli...@skurfer.com wrote: On 2009-Apr-29, at 11:58 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: hah. I

[Puppet Users] Re: Question about passwords

2009-04-29 Thread josbal
Further to this... If a user1 on server1 has uid 502 and in puppet i define user1 to have uid 500. When i add server1 to puppet, will puppet be able to change all the file permissions associated with user1? Or will it orphan all of user1's files? Thanks again. On Apr 30, 8:19 am, josbal