On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:45:44 -0700, bradejr wrote: > > Our environment (mostly RHEL) uses LDAP for user and group > administration. Unfortunately, we have some cases where (broken) > software insists on local users and groups. I'm guessing it's > checking the files directly instead of using the proper system calls. > > Our current process is to create the local user/group matching the > LDAP entries. How are people handling this case? Puppet won't create > the user locally, as it sees the user as already existing. We are > currently using exec to call the local versions of the commands > (luseradd, lusermod, etc), but that's something of a hack and makes > for more complex classes. Does anyone have a graceful way to handle > this in puppet? > > Thanks, > Rob >
Seems like it would be reasonable to make an luseradd provider for the user type along the same lines as the existing useradd one. Thanks for already opening a ticket for this! http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7911 -- Jacob Helwig
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