Hi,
On Jul 22, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Oliver Beattie wrote:
> I have a definition like this in one of my manifests:
>
> group { 'foo':
> ensure => present,
> }
>
> user { 'bar':
> ensure => present,
> groups => ['foo'],
> managehome => true,
> home => '/home/bar',
> shell => '/usr/sbin/nologin',
> require => Group['deploy'],
> }
>
> When I run it, however, I get this error:
>
> err: /Stage[main]/App-server/User[deploy]/ensure: change from absent to
> present failed: Could not create user deploy: Execution of '/usr/sbin/useradd
> -d /home/deploy -G deploy -s /usr/sbin/nologin -m deploy' returned 9:
> useradd: group deploy exists - if you want to add this user to that group,
> use -g.
>
> What can I do to fix this? I don't always want to assign the user to that
> group as its primary?
Is this a Debian system?
On Debian the user add command automatically adds a primary group with the same
name as the username.
What happens when you run the useradd command directly?
Kind regards,
Martin
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