Issue #1942 has been updated by seanmil.
Completely agree. gpasswd is the way to do it. I have had situations as an admin where I have had this exact use case before. It would be good if it were possible to support it in Puppet. ---------------------------------------- Feature #1942: Red Hat systems should use gpasswd instead of usermod for group changes http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1942 Author: sjlain Status: Needs more information Priority: Normal Assigned to: community Category: Red Hat Target version: unplanned Complexity: Easy Affected version: 0.24.7 Keywords: usermod,useradd,gpasswd,user management,group management Most Red Hat Enterprise Linux, at least releases 4 and 5, ship gpasswd-utility which allows management of entries in /etc/group which is exactly what usermod does. However, gpasswd has one big advantage over usermod: gpasswd does not require an entry for user to be added/deleted from a group to have an entry in /etc/passwd. In an environment which relies on (e.g.) some bizarre LDAP setup (I'm forced to live with one at work), there might not be entries in /etc/passwd for users which are still require to have various rights granted by entries in /etc/group. So there might be a user called 'foo' who has not an entry in /etc/passwd, yet the same user needs to be in group 'bar' in /etc/group as the group 'baz' is used to control who are allowed to use 'sudo'-command in the system. Now I could of course just rewrite necessary bits and pieces on useradd.rb locally, but this seems to be a thing that might be useful for Puppet-community in general (well, at least to those who run RHEL). So, thus a feature request. ---------------------------------------- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://reductivelabs.com/redmine/my/account --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
