On 08/02/2011 09:52 PM, Jfro wrote:
I'm new to Puppet but have searched this group and Puppet docs for how
to set up user passwords using puppet. I haven't found a clear answer
about setting user passwords.
I understand that it is a security risk to send plain text passwords via
Puppet. However, for my use case (setting up one "student" user on a
school computer lab) I think the risk is acceptable.
Can someone walk me through the steps of sending out a password to all
my computers for user "student."
My puppetmaster and puppets are running Ubuntu Lucide 10.4 LTS.
Thanks for getting a newbie off the ground!
This will help :
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/2.7.0/type.html#user-3
Otherwise, it's really just as simple as this :
user { 'student_account':
name => 'username',
password => '$6$xx...' # this is the crypted password string.
}
You can also set their group membership, home directory, uid, and other
things as well. Just ensure that the user statement is in a class
that's included on all of your target machines, and you're done.
--
dan.
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