----- Bruce Richardson <itsbr...@workshy.org> wrote: > 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. >
Thanks for responding. I agree, globally customizing the defaults is one way to go, but I am shooting for the second option. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) -- 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.
