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What is an 'account' and what is a 'user' #37

Closed felipe1982 closed 6 years ago

felipe1982 commented 8 years ago

What is the difference between an account and a user from the perspective of this module?

How can I just use hiera only to create/destroy users? I don't want to edit .pp files when I want new users created.

Please help as I'm unable to get it working, but I think I can with a bit of assistance.

johnzimm commented 8 years ago

A user is essentially just the "username" on the system. An "account" in this module includes all the other things associated with the user when created (e.g. home directory, uid, ssh keys, groups, password, etc...).

You can create and destroy users by setting the ensure parameter in your hierahash. Take a look at the options here: https://github.com/camptocamp/puppet-accounts/blob/master/manifests/account.pp

Be default ensure => present. But if you set it to ensure => absent puppet will make sure the account does not exist.

You can set it up to so that all users are specified in hiera (and you should).

The README walks through this and reading the manifests help to understand what is happening.

Are you getting hung up on a specific part of it? Exactly how you implement will depend on what you're trying to accomplish in your infrastructure.