| We are deploying with 5.3.5. I have not checked other versions for this issue. The issue is that HP-UX forces command line arguments to usermod to be in a specific order. Namely, the "login" must be the last argument. In lib/puppet/provider/user/hpux.rb, the code appends a "-F" argument at the end, past the "login" parameter. From the manpage: ==================== usermod(1M) usermod(1M) NAME
usermod - modify a user login on the system SYNOPSIS
usermod [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [-G group[,group]...]
[-d dir [-m [-i]]] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-f inactive]
[-l new_logname] [-e expire] [-p encrypted_password]
[-F] [-P -S alternate_password_file] login ==================== The change we made to
lib/puppet/provider/user/hpux.rb
to repair the error we got, was: ==================== $ diff hpux.rb.ORIG hpux.rb
27c27,31
< super.insert(1,"-F")
—
> cmd = super
> #puts "in deletecmd, cmd {cmd}"
> cmd.insert(1,"-F")
> #puts "in deletecmd after insert, cmd {cmd}"
> cmd
32c36,38
< cmd << "-F"
—
> #puts "in modifycmd, cmd {cmd}"
> cmd.insert(1,"-F")
> #puts "in modifycmd after insert, cmd {cmd}" ==================== Obviously in production one would remove the commented-out "puts" debugging. To reproduce: Deploy on HP-UX
(our system is at:
$ uname -a
HP-UX slc10ddl B.11.31 U ia64 4067183464 unlimited-user license
) Deploy a new user. cd to that user's $HOME dir in a shell (this is why the -F param is required:
-F Force the changes, even if the login is
currently in use.) Modify something about that user, and deploy that change. |
