multiple user creation with puppet module .

[Krushna Chandra Sahu]

Hi I am beginner in puppet world . I just created a module folder called users with following folder .

puppetservertest:/etc/puppet/modules/users# ls

files  manifests  templates

In manifest folder, I have single file called  init.pp

class users (

)

{

        group { "nextadmin":

                ensure => present,

        }

define users::add ( $username , $groupname = "" , $shell = "",  $ensure  , $login =  )  {

        user { "$username":

                ensure => "$ensure" ,

                groups => "$groupname"  ,

                shell =>  "$shell" ,

                require => Group["nextadmin"]  ,

        }

}

}

Now to I have to create multiple user . Where and how to declare the username ,groupname etc in the same file ?

[Felix Frank]

Hi,

welcome to the list then.

On 12/19/2014 02:20 AM, Krushna Chandra Sahu wrote:
> In manifest folder, I have single file called init.pp
>
> class users (
>
> )
>
> {
> group { "nextadmin":
> ensure => present,
> }
>
> define users::add ( $username , $groupname = "" , $shell = "",
> $ensure , $login = ) {
> user { "$username":
> ensure => "$ensure" ,
> groups => "$groupname" ,
> shell => "$shell" ,
> require => Group["nextadmin"] ,
> }
> }
> }
>

First off, the define ... { } block should not be nested in the class
users { ... } block.

Create a manifests/add.pp file that holds only the define.

Verbs like "add" are misleading resource type names, for they imply an
action. You seldomly define actions in Puppet manifests. Instead, you
declare *state* that Puppet will manage for you. I suggest you go for
users::user or users::instance instead.

>
> Now to I have to create multiple user . Where and how to declare the
> username ,groupname etc in the same file ?

Once you have structured the manifests in a suitable fashion (as
described above), you can put this in a node { } block or any other
suitable manifest location:

users::user {
'jack':
ensure => present,
username => 'jack',
groupname => 'admins',
shell => '/bin/bash',
}
users::user {
'jill':
ensure => present,
username => 'jill',
groupname => 'operators',
shell => '/bin/bash',
}

HTH,
Felix