I'm pretty much brand new to Puppet. I've read the tutorials on puppet labs, and most of Pro Puppet. But there's still a lot I don't get. So I figured I'd learn by doing.
My current goal is to write a user account wrapper. It would only be for local Linux accounts only, only on Ubuntu for now. I'm not just using the user type because I want to manage ssh authorized keys as well. I did find https://github.com/dcsobral/puppet-users, and a few others. But I'm not fond of the use of csv files, and it seems like a simple enough module to learn with. Wrapping user and ssh_authorized_key is simple, just pass in the information. But I do have a couple questions I couldn't find answers to in the docs, here, or Google. *Questions*: - What happens when a group listed in the user type does not exist on the server? - How do I figure out what hash to use for the password when creating a new user? - Do I just copy the hash directly into the password property? No need to tell puppet what kind of hash it is? - ssh_authorized_key: name has to be unique. So how do I add a key to more than one user? - I'd like to simply pass in an array of links(?) to pub key files to my wrapper instead of the actual ssh key. How would I tell Puppet to split the contents at the spaces so I can get the key, type, and name properties out of it? Future plans would be to manage shell configuration as well. But for now, all I need is what I've described above. Oh, when implementing this, does making a /etc/puppet/manifests/accounts/username.pp file per user, then including that file on the nodes that need that user, raise any "bad idea" flags for you? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
