Is it this issue?
http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1511
You need to have ruby-shadow library and restart puppetd.
-Peter
On May 6, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Can someone tell me what is the reason for the pw user provider not
> supporting the password parameter? As far as I know one can pipe an
> encrypted password string to pw and it will set it as expected.
>
> As a workaround I'm using an exec to achieve this functionality:
>
> define users::freebsd_user($gid, $uid, $comment, $password, $shell) {
>
> user { $name:
> ensure => present,
> comment => $comment,
> gid=> $gid,
> uid=> $uid,
> password => $password,
> shell => $shell,
> notify => Exec["passwd_$name"];
> }
>
> exec { "passwd_$name":
> path => "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin",
> command => "echo '$password' | /usr/sbin/pw usermod
> $name -H 0",
> refreshonly => "true";
> }
> }
>
>
> However it would be cleaner if the built-in type supported this. Is
> there a technical reason why this wasn't done?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Andrew.
>
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