Thanks for the suggestion, but I would like to stick to see if I can get that script working correctly first before using an additional management software.
On Friday, November 30, 2012 1:19:08 AM UTC-5, Pete wrote: > > Hi. > > I have stopped using puppet to manage users. (I now use FreeIPA for > authentication and authorization) > I used to use the password field in the user resource to do this It needs > an encrypted password though. > It worked fine for what I needed at the time. > So if you can get the password from the shadow file on one server you can > use that to set the passwords on all your other servers. > It should be pretty easy to use Heira to store them. > > > > > On 30 November 2012 15:14, illectronic <theo...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Hi, I am new to this and I discovered a manifest in an old post that >> should change passwords. It runs fine, but the password does not change. I >> am wondering how this would work since it would need to change the shadow. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> define change_passwd($user,$passwd) { >> exec { "/usr/bin/puppet apply -v -e \'user { \"${user}\": password >> => \"${passwd}\" }\'": >> onlyif => "/bin/grep -c ^${user}: /etc/shadow" >> } >> } >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/TZ868p26GtAJ. >> To post to this group, send email to puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/4Yzal_7bn9QJ. 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.