I don't even have it installed. Thing is, I can add the user by using "-g". 
But, why is puppet not able to do so, that's what is wondering me.

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 8:51:37 PM UTC+5:30, Jesse Throwe wrote:
>
> Generally when I see weird errors like this with users/group nscd has 
> gotten in my way.  Might be worth disabling nscd (and making sure its 
> really off) then trying this again.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:33 AM, shadyabhi <abhije...@gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is precisely what I am observing.
>>
>> [root@index11 ~]# puppet resource group logstash ensure=present
>> notice: /Group[logstash]/ensure: created
>> group { 'logstash':
>>   ensure => 'present',
>> }
>> [root@index11 ~]# puppet resource user logstash ensure=present
>> err: /User[logstash]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could 
>> not create user logstash: Execution of '/usr/sbin/useradd -M logstash' 
>> returned 9: useradd: group logstash exists - if you want to add this user 
>> to that group, use -g.
>>
>> user { 'logstash':
>>   ensure => 'absent',
>> }
>> [root@index11 ~]#
>>
>> How do I fix this? I want to avoid not using execs. :)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -- 
>> Cheers,
>> Abhijeet R
>> http://blog.abhijeetr.com
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