add user to certain hosts

[Philippe Conway]

Hey Guys,

I am wanting to add certain users to certain hosts. I was thinking of listing it in my users module. Here is an example:

 user {'llane':

    if $fqdn = 'node1.example.com' {

      ensure => present,

    }else{

      ensure => absent,

    }

    home       => '/home/llane',

    managehome => true,

    uid        => '1003',

    shell      => '/bin/bash',

    comment    => 'Lois Lane',

  }

Basically looking to add Lois Lane to ONLY node1.example.com.

However Puppet is saying I can't do it because of a syntax error. To me the code looks correct, but I may be just tired and not noticing the error. Any suggestions? Thanks

- Philippe

[Peter Bukowinski]

You may already be aware that putting node-specific logic in your puppet manifests is not a best practice, but I'll help you with the syntax error. Your if conditional needs to use '==' to test the fact value, not a single equal which is used for assigning values.

--
Peter Bukowinski

[Philippe Conway]

Thanks Peter I'll give that a shot.

I'm still a noob to Puppet, but yeah I'm aware putting in node-specific logic in our manifests is not best practice. Still trying to figure out a way I could do what I'm trying to do.

Thanks again sir.

- Philippe