I just wondered if anyone has experience of this kind of problem, and what approaches they've found to work best.
I'm writing my first type/provider (on pupet 0.25.x) to automatically setup RabbitMQ. The basic approach I'm taking is to wrap the rabbitmqctl command (which lets you create vhosts, users and ACLs that let the users do things on the vhosts). Creating / deleting vhosts is simple, I just tag the Type as 'ensurable' and fill in the create / destroy / exists? in the Provider. (Thanks to @kartar for the great quickstart article at http://www.kartar.net/2010/02/puppet-types-and-providers-are-easy/ , by the way) That works great, but I'm a bit stumped on how to create a user type. Ideally I'd like something that worked as: rabbitmq_user { "username": password => "sekrit", ensure => "present" } The problem is I won't be able to check the current password, since there's the nothing like a 'rabbitmqctl show_password username' command. My options are either: 1. write something low-level to hash the password attribute and compare it against something in RabbitMQs internals. 2. always set the password (i.e. have exists? always return false) "rabbitmqctl change_password username sekrit" 3. don't bother trying to manage a password, just set it if the user isn't there and create them with the password specified in the puppet manifest. If they already exist, don't attempt to change the password. 1. is a fair bit of work, and probably quite brittle 2. is going to do unnecessary work (and I'll have to create the user if they don't exist anyway) 3. is the easiest to code, so I'll probably end up doing that. That wil let me get on and finish my last requirement (creating acls to map users to vhosts) Then i can tidy up the code, drop it on github and hope a smarter coder comes along... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
