On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 03:01:14PM +0000, Dan White wrote: > > Thanks for responding. Nice tag line. > > OK, more details: > > In my users class, I want to be able to push out custom dot-files when the > user account is first created. > Unfortunately, if one sets user:managehome => true, the dotfiles are > created by default and the custom file is not pushed out unless you > set file:replace => yes.
You realise that this is being done by Unix (Linux?), not Puppet? If you use puppet to replace the system's default dotfiles (on Linux, they'll be in /etc/skel) *before* creating any users, you'll get precisely what you want. Just set up the users so that they depend on the file resources which place the right files in /etc/skel and this will guarantee the files are in there before the users are created (assuming they didn't exist already). The Unix user creation tools will copy the /etc/skel files into the right place when Puppet invokes them. This only fails if you need different dotfiles (differing by content and/or name) for different users. If you don't, simple win -- Bruce Hierophant: someone who remembers, when you are on the way down, everything you did to them on the way up. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
