Default user password

[schickb]

I would like to creating new users on a system and assign them default
passwords that are set only upon creation. I can create the users and
assign default passwords with the "user" type, but puppet will
continue to reset the password back to that default value even after
users modify their own.

I guess I could handle this with an "exec" that sets passwords only if
the user exists but has never logged in or something. Any other
solution?

It would be helpful if the "user" type had a new attribute called
"defaultpassword" or "initialpassword".

[Peter Meier]

Hi

> It would be helpful if the "user" type had a new attribute called
> "defaultpassword" or "initialpassword".

or a boolean option 'reset' or 'resetpassword' default to true. Like the
replace option for the file type.

That would definitely be interesting.

greets pete

[Luke Kanies]

I can see how you'd want this. It might actually make sense to even
have a metaparameter that generalized this -- something like
'noreplace => password'. If the property is absent, then it gets set,
but otherwise, it gets ignored. This would be able to replace the
file's 'replace' parameter -- it would be equivalent to 'noreplace =>
content'.

Anyone willing to open that as a feature request?

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[Peter Meier]

Hi

> Anyone willing to open that as a feature request?

#1744 [1]

cheers pete

[1] http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/show/1744