Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Making a system user member of a Puppet managed group

2012-01-06 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Andreas N d...@pseudoterminal.org wrote: On Wednesday, January 4, 2012 3:06:27 PM UTC+1, Gonzalo wrote: Otherwise, group membership is managed as a property of Users, ergo you cannot manage it (directly) if you do not manage the users in question. Your only

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Making a system user member of a Puppet managed group

2012-01-05 Thread Andreas N
On Wednesday, January 4, 2012 3:06:27 PM UTC+1, Gonzalo wrote: Otherwise, group membership is managed as a property of Users, ergo you cannot manage it (directly) if you do not manage the users in question. Your only options in that case are an Exec or a custom Group provider. Ah, ok.

[Puppet Users] Re: Making a system user member of a Puppet managed group

2012-01-04 Thread jcbollinger
On Jan 4, 12:48 am, Gonzalo Servat gser...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a particular requirement where a Puppet managed group needs to have several members that are either local and not managed by Puppet (e.g. mysql) or they reside in LDAP. Apart from running an exec call to groupmems,

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Making a system user member of a Puppet managed group

2012-01-04 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:00 AM, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.orgwrote: It depends on the Group provider, which usually depends on operating system. If you are using the default Group provider for AIX, OS X, or Windows, then group membership is managed as an attribute of the group

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Making a system user member of a Puppet managed group

2012-01-04 Thread Josh Cooper
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:00 AM, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.orgwrote: If you are using the default Group provider for AIX, OS X, or Windows, then group membership is managed as an attribute of the group instead of the user. Windows can actually manage 'members' as an attribute of the