OS X Home Directory path - username substitution

[Luis Zuniga]

Hi,

Wondering how to substitute the OS X username into the manifest document.

Here are the details:

On the OS X client:

Username is user1

on the puppet server:

sites.pp file:

file { "/Users/$identity['user']/Applications/mpbar/myscript.sh":

        ensure => 'file',

        owner => 'user1',

        group => 'staff',

        mode => '0755',

        source => "puppet:///modules/mymodule/myscript.sh",

        backup => 'false',

}

If I hard code 'user1' everything works but when I try to substitute the username from the agent I get all the key pairs from identity and not just the user name (user1):

/Users/{gid => 20, group => staff, uid => 504, user => user1}['user']/Applications/mpbar/myscript.sh

I've tried $identity.user as well with no luck.

Any advice on how I can get the local OS X username passed into the sites.pp file so this works properly?

Appreciate any help.

Luis

 

[Luis Zuniga]

Got it to work like this:

$myuser = $identity['user']

$mygroup = $identity['group']

file { "/Users/${myuser}/Applications/mpbar/mpdbar.sh":

        ensure => 'file',

        owner => $myuser,

        group => $mygroup,

        mode => '0755',

        source => "puppet:///modules/mybarmodule/mpdbar.sh",

        backup => 'false',

}