We just need the account to have root access and be created
successfully, I looked at the permissions of the assorted folders
everything to the best of my knowledge had root access. I'll
definitely look into it though thanks for the heads up.
On Jun 13, 5:20 pm, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM, vella1tj <vella...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well I haven't got on top of debugging the createhomdir but I just
> > wanted to let you know how we got the command to work. this is the
> > exec as follows
>
> > exec {'username':
> > command =>"cp -R /System/Library/templateuser/English.lproj/ /
> > Users/username/",
> > path =>"/bin/",
> > #everything else that we where using has been commented out.
> > }
>
> > The path command was key and one of my managers was just screwing with
> > it and got it to work. The manifests are different a little bit
> > because i went in and changed the "User Template" to "templateuser"
> > because i thought puppet was having a hard time on the files with
> > spaces. Just thought you would want to know. Again thank you so much
> > you are awesome Nigel, if there is anything I could do for you just
> > let me know:)
>
> Thank you for the kind words, but making more Mac Puppet users is enough :)
>
> I'd be a bit careful of the above command though. You may not end up with
> the permissions your users expect, particularly on the "Public" and
> "Public/DropBox" folders.
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> > On Jun 13, 3:53 pm, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:48 PM, vella1tj <vella...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > so the copying way of the user template is prolly not the best way?
>
> > > That's basically one of the underlying things createhomedir does, but
> > you're
> > > not going to actually be setting up directories with the correct
> > > permissions/ACLs, which could be a problem.
>
> > > Especially in later versions of OS X, createhomedir problems have often
> > been
> > > a symptom of another directory service related issue in my experience, so
> > > I'd definitely do some debugging first.
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> > > > On Jun 13, 3:24 pm, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:05 AM, vella1tj <vella...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > > Unfortunately it is still not creating the Home folder but it is at
> > > > > > least creating the User and assigning it the proper values!!:D
>
> > > > > > I'm going to try doing a mdir to create the home folder. Let me
> > know
> > > > > > what you think about that, here is what I have right now.
>
> > > > > > user {'user':
> > > > > > uid => 501,
> > > > > > gid => 'staff',
> > > > > > #comment => "some random comment",
> > > > > > ensure => present,
> > > > > > home => '/Users/user',
> > > > > > shell => '/bin/bash',
> > > > > > # provider => user_role_add,
> > > > > > password => 'Hash,
> > > > > > }
>
> > > > > > exec {"/usr/sbin/createhomedir -c -l -u user":
> > > > > > subscribe => User[user],
> > > > > > refreshonly => true,
> > > > > > }
>
> > > > > > The weird thing is even manually using the createdir command is not
> > > > > > working. I thought maybe their was something wrong with the OS
> > > > > > installation because its on a macbook air so I tried it on my
> > actual
> > > > > > Imac work computer. I deleted the local admin account then ran the
> > > > > > command it created the user but not the home folder still. I forget
> > to
> > > > > > set myself as admin so I had to have my manager su user then create
> > > > > > the folder and he was able to. So it's def the script that I wrote
> > > > > > that is not working. Thanks for your time again Nigel I do
> > appreciate
> > > > > > it.
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> > > > > Sometimes createhomedir is just buggy. :(
>
> > > > > If you do "man DirectoryService" you'll see the instructions for
> > sending
> > > > > USR1 signals to the DS process for debugging and there might be
> > something
> > > > > that leaps out when you interactively run createhomedir for the user.
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