On Friday, October 5, 2012 12:40:07 PM UTC-5, eduardo wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I wondering why having provider=useradd the parameter managehome =>
> true don't delete home directory ?
> I have :
> user { $name: ensure => absent, managehome => true }
> As result, home directory was not deleted.
>
> I appreciate any advise about it.
> Thanks in advanced, eduardo
>
It is reasonably common to want to create home directories automatically
when creating a user account, but at least as common to want to *avoid*removing
them when removing a user. I see that the type reference appears
to suggest that "managehome => true" would produce both behaviors, but that
is not consistent with historic Puppet behavior, which is to provide only
homedir creation, not removal. I don't know whether the docs are
misleading, whether Puppet is buggy in this regard, or whether you're using
a different version than is described by the current docs.
If you want to work around this issue, you can wrap your User declarations
in a defined type that provides the desired behavior. A minimalistic
version might look something like this:
modules/user/manifests/hosted_user.pp:
----------------------------------------------------------
define user::hosted_user ($ensure = 'present') {
$homedir = "/home/${name}"
user { "${name}":
ensure => "${ensure}",
home => "${homedir}",
managehome => true
}
if "${ensure}" == 'absent' {
file { "${homedir}":
ensure => absent,
recurse => true,
require => User["${name}"]
}
}
}
------
You could then use it like so:
user::hosted_user { 'eduardo': ensure => absent }
For real-world use you would probably want additional parameters, etc.
John
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