puppet user context

[Robert Turk]

Good morning,

I have a question concerning puppet and modifying user data. I am on Mac
OS X 10.8.5 with puppet 3.4.2.
I would like to run a manifest with the following content:

file { "/Users/${id}/Desktop/testfile":
ensure => file,
}
file { "/usr/testfile":
ensure => file,
}

For this manifest you need root access and you have to know the current
logged in user.
But the fact $id is, of course, "root" because I have to run this
manifest as root.

So how can I get the current logged in user as a variable?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards.
Robert

[Andrey Kozichev]

Do you need to run this only for logged in users?

You can use facter fact to return logged in users and use it in your manifest.

Andrey

Robert

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[Robert Turk]

Am 16.01.14 13:50, schrieb Andrey Kozichev:

> Do you need to run this only for logged in users?

No not really... You suggest I could do something like checking which
users exist on the machine and then run it for these users
ignoring if they are logged in or not?

> You can use facter fact to return logged in users and use it in your
> manifest.

Do you mean building a custom fact for this value?

Robert

[Andrey Kozichev]

Not sure, what is your task.
Where are you getting users from? Is it everyone or do you have defined list? 

Andrey

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[Robert Turk]

Am 17.01.14 09:17, schrieb Andrey Kozichev:

> Not sure, what is your task.
> Where are you getting users from? Is it everyone or do you have
> defined list?

I just want to put some plist files in the user library to provide some
setings.
It is for every user, so I could maybe check the "/Users" folder and
place the files
into every user's home folder I can find.

Robert

[Andrey Kozichev]

You can get list of directories under /Users from facter and then build an array out of it and use this in your manifest.

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[Robert Turk]

Am 17.01.14 11:43, schrieb Andrey Kozichev:

> You can get list of directories under /Users from facter and then
> build an array out of it and use this in your manifest.

Thanks for your help. I will try this...

Robert

[Robert Turk]

Am 20.01.14 09:02, schrieb Robert Turk:

> You can get list of directories under /Users from facter and then
> build an array out of it and use this in your manifest.

I tested your solution and here is what I have done:

I created a custom fact which returns a list of directories under /Users:
facter local_user_list => user1,user2

Next in puppet I created the following code:

class wallpaper_plist {
$array_userlist=split($local_user_list,',')
case $macosx_productversion_major {
'10.8': { $plist_name = 'com.apple.desktop_10.8.plist' }
'10.6': { $plist_name = 'com.apple.desktop_10.6.plist' }
default: { warn( 'macosx_productversion_major does not
match 10.8 or 10.6' ) }
}
define user_resource {
file {
"/Users/${name}/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist":
owner => "${name}",
group => 'staff',
mode => 600,
ensure => file,
source => "puppet:///modules/wallpaper_plist/${plist_name}",
}
}
user_resource { $array_userlist: }
}

This code works, but it gives me a directory for the file resource. And
not a file like it is said in the code.

Any ideas?

Robert

[Jose Luis Ledesma]

Could be that the ${plist_name} is undef inside the define? You could try adding a notify inside the define to check which value it has.

Regards,

[Robert Turk]

Am 28.01.14 18:34, schrieb Jose Luis Ledesma:

> Could be that the ${plist_name} is undef inside the define? You could try adding a notify inside the define to check which value it has.

If I use a notify inside the defined resource I get a duplicate
declaration error, so I chnaged the code to use a static filename
instead of the $plist_name variable and it worked.

But using a notify outside the defined resource works and gets me the
correct value for the variable $plist_name...
So why is it not working? Is it an other scope or namespace?

Robert

[José Luis Ledesma]

I think so, but I'm not an expert .

Could you try adding the "full path"

$classname::plist_name?

Regards

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[Robert Turk]

Am 29.01.14 10:05, schrieb José Luis Ledesma:

> Could you try adding the "full path"

Thanks for your help. Using "${wallpaper_plist::plist_name}" does the
trick. :)

Robert