On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Nick Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:37 AM, David Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Aha! This and the resulting discussion pointed me in the right direction > what's wrong with the machines I was looking at: they're missing > libshadow-ruby. > > > I'm starting to think we shouldn't bother consuming libshadow-ruby. > > We only use it to pull out the hash, min_age and max_age from the user > records, and that's relatively easy to do manually... > > In fact, we already do it manually in the user_role_add provider for > Solaris...
Doh! I know there was a wider discussion around not relying upon tools like useradd at all on Linux for user management, and I think there may have been a ticket on this already. I'll hunt that down and we'll see if we can remove this annoying dependency. -- Nigel Kersten | http://puppetlabs.com | @nigelkersten Schedule Meetings at: http://tungle.me/nigelkersten -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" 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-dev?hl=en.
