Jira (PUP-11378) User resource difference in functionality between rhel 7 and 8

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PUP-11378

User resource difference in functionality between rhel 7 and 8

Issue Type:	Bug
Assignee:	Unassigned
Created:	2021/12/13 10:27 AM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Patrick Grant

*Puppet version: 6.22.1 (PE Agent from PE 2019.8.6)
Puppet Server Version: 6.15.3
OS Name/Version: rhel 7 and rhel 8*

In this case, both systems have a local and domain user called administrator, in rhel 8 this results in corrective changes on each run as it tries to manage the domain user whereas this seems to be ignored on the rhel 7 box, and only the local user is managed.

Desired Behaviour: Behaviour is consistent across OS versions. What that should be, I'm not exactly sure, should the local user take precedence in this case?

Actual Behaviour: rhel 7, puppet only acts on the local user, rhel 8 has a corrective change on every run as it manages the domain administrator:

Dec 7 13:01:43 <hostname> puppet-agent[18320]: (/Stage[main]/Profile::Base/User[administrator]/uid) change from 1553200500 to 1000 failed: Could not set uid on user[administrator]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -u 1000 administrator' returned 4: usermod: UID '1000' already exists (corrective)

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PUP-11378

User resource difference in functionality between rhel 7 and 8

Change By:	Patrick Grant

*Puppet version: 6.22.1 (PE Agent from PE 2019.8.6) *
* Puppet Server Version: 6.15.3 *
* OS Name/Version: rhel 7 and rhel 8*

In this case, both systems have a local and domain user called administrator, in rhel 8 this results in corrective changes on each run as it tries to manage the domain user whereas this seems to be ignored on the rhel 7 box, and only the local user is managed.

*Desired Behaviour:* Behaviour is consistent across OS versions. What that should be, I'm not exactly sure, should the local user take precedence in this case?

*Actual Behaviour:* rhel 7, puppet only acts on the local user, rhel 8 has a corrective change on every run as it manages the domain administrator:

{code:java}

Dec 7 13:01:43 <hostname> puppet-agent[18320]: (/Stage[main]/Profile::Base/User[administrator]/uid) change from 1553200500 to 1000 failed: Could not set uid on user[administrator]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -u 1000 administrator' returned 4: usermod: UID '1000' already exists (corrective)

{code}