Puppet

I’m attempting to do the following: 1. Install ruby-shadow 2. Create a user account (with a password)

Unfortunately puppet tends to screw up the order. Here’s the test manifest:

package { ruby-shadow: ensure => installed; }
user { testdude:
    ensure => present,
    gid => users,
    password => '$1$loo03Rez$MfxLF/9uMeaeOPCtceYGc0',
    require => Package[ruby-shadow],
    comment => "test account";
}

Puppet checks for the account’s presence before anything, and complains about ruby-shadow not being there. IMHO it shouldn’t even care about checking anything to do with the account, since I have specified a prerequisite. Anyway, it installs ruby-shadow, then creates the account without a password despite ruby-shadow now being on the system. It takes a second run of puppet to set the password, which is really not ideal.

Here’s the output with debugging and verbose:

[root@test ~]# puppet -d -v test.pp 
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderRpm: Executing '/bin/rpm --version'
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderUrpmi: Executing '/bin/rpm -ql rpm'
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderAptrpm: Executing '/bin/rpm -ql rpm'
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderYum: Executing '/bin/rpm --version'
debug: Failed to load library 'shadow' for feature 'libshadow'
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderAptitude: file /usr/bin/aptitude does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderPkgdmg: file /Library/Receipts does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderFreebsd: file /usr/sbin/pkg_delete does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderSun: file /usr/sbin/pkgrm does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderEasy_install: file easy_install does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderAppdmg: file /Library/Receipts does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderHpux: file /usr/sbin/swinstall does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderOpenbsd: file pkg_delete does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderPorts: file /usr/local/sbin/pkg_deinstall does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderGem: file gem does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderSunfreeware: file pkg-get does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderDarwinport: file /opt/local/bin/port does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderFink: file /sw/bin/fink does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderRug: file /usr/bin/rug does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderApple: file /Library/Receipts does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderAptrpm: file apt-get does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderApt: file /usr/bin/apt-get does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderUrpmi: file urpmi does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderUp2date: file /usr/sbin/up2date-nox does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderDpkg: file /usr/bin/dpkg does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderPortage: file /usr/bin/emerge does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderUser_role_add: file roleadd does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderPw: file pw does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderLdap: true value when expecting false
debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderNetinfo: file nireport does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderDirectoryservice: file /usr/bin/dscl does not exist
info: /User[testdude]: Provider useradd does not support features manages_passwords; not managing attribute password
debug: Creating default schedules
debug: Prefetching yum resources for package
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderYum: Executing '/bin/rpm --version'
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderYum: Executing '/bin/rpm -qa --nosignature --nodigest --qf '%{NAME} %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}
''
debug: /User[testdude]/require: requires Package[ruby-shadow]
debug: Failed to load library 'ldap' for feature 'ldap'
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderYum: Executing '/bin/rpm -q ruby-shadow --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME} %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}
'
debug: //Package[ruby-shadow]: Changing ensure
debug: //Package[ruby-shadow]: 1 change(s)
debug: Package[ruby-shadow](provider=yum): Ensuring => present
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderYum: Executing '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install ruby-shadow'
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderYum: Executing '/bin/rpm -q ruby-shadow --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME} %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}
'
notice: //Package[ruby-shadow]/ensure: created
debug: /User[testdude]: Changing ensure
debug: /User[testdude]: 1 change(s)
debug: User[testdude](provider=useradd): Executing '/usr/sbin/useradd -c test account -g users -M testdude'
notice: /User[testdude]/ensure: created
debug: Finishing transaction 23951941785180 with 2 changes