Re: user management

On Oct 26, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Adam Crews wrote:

> I would like to use puppet to manage my user accounts.  I also have a
> requirement to do things like password aging on the systems, and
> enforcing strong passwords.
>
> I can create a user just fine with the user class and have it assign a
> password to the account.  If I change the password on the local  
> machine,
> puppet will reset it to the password specified in my user class.  Is
> there a built in way I can tell puppet to only set the password one
> time, and allow the system to manage it at that point?

There's no way to do that with Puppet.  It's really much better at  
managing system users, which don't normally have passwords, than  
normal users.

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