puppet-users module¶ ↑

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Use this module to create users and/or groups and to distribute the public key you normally use to authenticate to a remote machine.

Recommended use¶ ↑

The definitions in this module are most efficiently used when combined with virtual resources, that can be realized when needed:

class mysite::users {
  @users::localgroup { 'admins':
    gid => '5000'
  }

  @users::localuser { 'foo':
    uid        => '5000',
    logingroup => 'admins'
  }

  @users::localuser { 'bar':
    uid        => '5001',
    logingroup => 'admins',
    shell      => '/bin/ksh'
  }
}

You can now easily realize the virtual users as you see fit.

class mysite::myserver {
  include mysite::users

  Users::Localgroup <| title == 'admins' |>
  Users::Localuser <| title == 'foo' |>
}

This enables you to consolidate your users and still be flexible.