Groups in puppet.

Last time I ended up not being able to create my user because I didn't have a group for it and ran out of time before I needed to call it a night. So I'll start tonight by creating a group for my user. Go to the puppet config dir:

# cd /etc/puppet

Then edit the virtual file we created in our users module last time and add a group, like this: users/manifests/virtual.pp

class user::virtual {
    @user { "andrewmccall":
        ensure  => "present",
        uid     => "1001",
        gid     => "1001",
        comment => "Andrew McCall",
        home    => "/home/andrewmccall",
        shell   => "/bin/bash",
        managehome => true,
        require => [Group["andrewmccall"]],
    }

    @group { "andrewmccall":
        ensure  => "present",
        gid     => "1001", 
    }

}

Next in the unixadmins file we need to realize our new group, it should look like this: users/manifests/virtual.pp

class user::unixadmins inherits user::virtual {
    realize(
        Group["andrewmccall"],
        User["andrewmccall"]
    )
}

Run puppet on the local files and you'll have a new user and a group for it. It should look something like this:

# puppet -v --modulepath=/etc/puppet/modules /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
info: Autoloaded module sudo
info: Autoloaded module user
info: Applying configuration version '1281368198'
notice: //user::virtual/Group[andrewmccall]/ensure: created
notice: //user::virtual/User[andrewmccall]/ensure: created

Don't forget to commit the changes to the git repo.

# git add .
# git commit -a -m "Added a users module to manage users"