Erwin, the variable is probably coming into the define correctly, but 
you're quoting "$usergroups" in the user resource which will concatenate 
the values together... remove the quotes and all should be well..

On Friday, November 9, 2012 5:19:31 AM UTC-8, Erwin Bogaard wrote:
>
> As I try to get some flexibility in the creation of users, I switched to a 
> define.
> problem is, I can't pass an array of user groups anymore. This either 
> results in
> - wrong group creation: group1,group1group2,group2 (see that group1 and 
> group2 are concatenated in the middle, undefined group)
> - error: Group names must be provided as an array, not a comma-separated 
> list.
>
>
> I use the following define:
>
> define users::definitions (
>     $home       = "/home/$title",
>     $usergroups = $title,
>     $ifensure   = 'present',
>     ) {
>     user {
>     "$title":
>       home       => "$home",
>       managehome => true,
>       ensure     => "$ifensure",
>       groups     => "$usergroups",
>     }
> ...
> }
>
> And the following class to call the define:
>
> class users {
>     users::definitions {
>     'rsnapshot':
>       usergroups => [ 'group1', 'group2' ];
>     }
> }
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to pass an array of groups to a define?
>

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