Re: user management

You could always use something like npasswd to manage the
password complexity requirements on a single host
(puppetmaster) and then use puppet to push the resulting
password file out to all other systems.  The drawback is that
users have to maintain their passwords on a single host and
have to keep them the same everywhere.

Link: http://www.utexas.edu/cc/unix/software/npasswd/




---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:24:46 -0500
>From: Luke Kanies <luke@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
>Subject: Re: [Puppet-users] user management  
>To: Puppet User Discussion <puppet-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>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.
>
>  --
>  The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
>          -- John F. Kennedy
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