Adding users to groups

[Oliver Beattie]

I have a definition like this in one of my manifests:

group { 'foo':

    ensure => present,

}

user { 'bar':

    ensure => present,

    groups => ['foo'],

    managehome => true,

    home => '/home/bar',

    shell => '/usr/sbin/nologin',

    require => Group['deploy'],

}

When I run it, however, I get this error:

err: /Stage[main]/App-server/User[deploy]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could not create user deploy: Execution of '/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/deploy -G deploy -s /usr/sbin/nologin -m deploy' returned 9: useradd: group deploy exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use -g.

What can I do to fix this? I don't always want to assign the user to that group as its primary?

—Oliver 

[Oliver Beattie]

(I should point out, the user was called deploy in the actual manifest :-)

[Martin Alfke]

Hi,

Is this a Debian system?

On Debian the user add command automatically adds a primary group with the same name as the username.

What happens when you run the useradd command directly?

Kind regards,

Martin

[Oliver Beattie]

Hi,

Yes, this is Debian (Ubuntu). If I specify groups (not gid) surely the groups the user gets added to should be secondary, not primary?

If I run the command directly I get the same error (although not if I lowercase the g of course).

—Oliver

[Martin Alfke]

OK.

I assume you need to give the gid parameter for primary group to your manifest.

—Oliver

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