New Home Attribute on consul user resource breaks our puppet runs.

[bogdankatishev]

This merge #550 breaks our Puppet runs on our current Consul Agents.

Error: Could not set home on user[consul]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -d /opt/consul/data consul' returned 8: usermod: user consul is currently used by process 894
Error: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/User[consul]/home: change from '/home/consul' to '/opt/consul/data' failed: Could not set home on user[consul]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -d /opt/consul/data consul' returned 8: usermod: user consul is currently used by process 894

As far as I can see, many popular Puppet Modules avoid the User resource, or when they use them, they do not set the home attribute.

How could this be resolved cleanly?

[solarkennedy]

Oh man, I didn't expect that change not work with a running process. Hmm :(

[genebean]

I was just coming to report the same issue...

[bplunkert]

I am seeing the same issue preventing consul deployment on 7.0.0.