Jira (PUP-9264) Puppet errors when deleting a Windows user with no user profile and when managehome=true

Enis Inan (JIRA)

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PUP-9264

Puppet errors when deleting a Windows user with no user profile and when managehome=true

Issue Type:	Bug
Assignee:	Unassigned
Created:	2018/10/24 2:26 PM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Enis Inan

When Puppet attempts to delete a user with no user profile, the Windows user provider errors the run with an unreadable error message. For example, running

puppet resource user jimmy ensure=absent password=foo managehome=true

when the user jimmy existed but did not have a user profile results in

Error: Could not set 'absent' on ensure: (in OLE method `Delete': )

    OLE error code:80070002 in SWbemServicesEx

      The system cannot find the file specified.

    HRESULT error code:0x80020009

      Exception occurred.

Error: Could not set 'absent' on ensure: (in OLE method `Delete': )

    OLE error code:80070002 in SWbemServicesEx

      The system cannot find the file specified.

    HRESULT error code:0x80020009

      Exception occurred.

Wrapped exception:

(in OLE method `Delete': )

    OLE error code:80070002 in SWbemServicesEx

      The system cannot find the file specified.

    HRESULT error code:0x80020009

      Exception occurred.

Error: /User[jimmy_two]/ensure: change from 'present' to 'absent' failed: Could not set 'absent' on ensure: (in OLE method `Delete': )

    OLE error code:80070002 in SWbemServicesEx

      The system cannot find the file specified.

    HRESULT error code:0x80020009

      Exception occurred.

The reason this happens is because of https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/util/windows/adsi.rb#L496 – specifically since the user does not have a user profile, no user profile's SID will match the user's SID. We should probably rescue this error code there.