You could use the resource description tool, in a generate call in the
appropriate resource, to have puppet ruun the process of rebuilding the
appropriate manifest content on demand. (Probably needs a little scripting
wrapped around it to get the content in the right format.)
For the file content I would add another fileserver mount for /home on that
system, then serve the content into the appropriate target location.
That way you don't need to copy anything, including the data about the
users, in a static fashion.
Regards,
Daniel
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On Feb 17, 2011 6:45 AM, "Robin Lee Powell" <rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org>
wrote:
>
> I have a central server, that happens to be the puppetmaster, that
> has various users on it. I would like to copy out their information
> (name, uid, password, .bashrc, etc) to all my other hosts, but I
> want to let the users change their stuff on that host, so I don't
> want to just stick it in puppet.
>
> My inclination is to just make a script that runs through the passwd
> file and generates puppet instructions out, and also copies the user
> files in question into a place in the puppetmaster directories.
>
> Is there a more-idiomatic way to do that?
>
> -Robin
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