On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Martin Alfke <tux...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrei,
>
> On 10.12.2012, at 09:22, Andrei-Florian Staicu wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I started managing users with puppet (3). Right now it works ok, but I
> have to change the hash manually in the manifest files. I would like users
> to login to the puppet master and change the password for themselves. Could
> I do something like this?
> > password => `grep $user /etc/shadow | awk -F ':' '{print $2}',
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> You want to make use of a function:
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html
>
> Functions get executed on the master.
>
> hth,
>
> Martin


Hi Martin, and thanks for the quick answer.

Do you happen to know with what user do the scripts get executed on the
master? I it's not root, i might have to stick some sudos in there.

Thanks.
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