Option to manage the primary group of an user.

[Dimitar-Boychev]

It will be really nice to have an option to change the primary group of the user.
Now if you try to set a gid to an existing gid the groupmod fails with:

Could not set gid on group[john]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/groupmod -g 1696 john' returned 4: groupmod: GID '1696' already exists

Update: the normal puppet "user" resource allows you to specify an existing group as primary group.

user { "neo":
  ensure     => "present",
  managehome => true,
  gid => 1000 #this is an already existing group
}

[deric]

You could use the groups parameter, right?

user { "neo":
  ensure            => "present",
  managehome => true,
  groups            => ['users']
}

[deric]

I've added a parameter manage_group

user { "neo":
  manage_group => false,
}

which will disable creating a group. Hopefully it will solve your issue.

The naming is not consistent with managehome, but I'd like to change that one to manage_home is some future release.

[Dimitar-Boychev]

Hello,
the problem in using groups => ['users'] on neo for example is that this produces
user neo with primary group neo and a secondary group users.
And with the original user resource it produces user neo with primary group users.

[deric]

Right, according to documentation as gid we can supply a name, thus you could create a primary group with:

user { "neo":
  gid => 'primary-group',
}

if we fix the numerical validation