On 2012-05-15 18:56, Jeff Weiss wrote:
Puppet Community,
We need your help.
We have a terrific contribution from Bart ten Brinke that would add an
`unless_uid` parameter to user resources. The pull is request is 628
(https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/628).
We acknowledge the clear use case around needing to exclude specific
users--not explicitly managed by Puppet--from a purge. Because we don't
yet have an awesome resource collection syntax for this and we feel that
would be a decent-sized investment, we're on the fence about the syntax
that this would create. Here's the example from the pull request:
|class users::resources {
resources {'user':
purge => true,
unless_system_user => true,
unless_uid => [10_000..20_000];
}
}|
To reiterate, we see value here and can't think of a better near-term
solution.
What are your thoughts? Is this intuitive enough? Is it a must-have feature?
Interesting concept. I find the syntax acceptable.
Alternatively a file-inspired syntax comes to mind:
file { "/somewhere": source => "...", purge => true }
user_range { "[10000..15000]": purge => false }
I'm not convinced that would be better.
A more concrete point would be to add more examples into the docstring.
As it stands there is no chance to create a correct range expression
from the documentation alone.
Related point: I'd really like to avoid *creating* users in a specified
range. At a site I've got NIS users and puppet happily creates local
admin users in that range creating clashes in the future. Any ideas?
Best Regards, David
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