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Facts related to *nix and windows system users
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Version information

  • 1.0.2 (latest)
  • 1.0.1
released May 3rd 2018
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.x, 2023.7.x, 2023.6.x, 2023.5.x, 2023.4.x, 2023.3.x, 2023.2.x, 2023.1.x, 2023.0.x, 2021.7.x, 2021.6.x, 2021.5.x, 2021.4.x, 2021.3.x, 2021.2.x, 2021.1.x, 2021.0.x, 2019.8.x, 2019.7.x, 2019.5.x, 2019.4.x, 2019.3.x, 2019.2.x, 2019.1.x, 2019.0.x, 2018.1.x, 2017.3.x, 2017.2.x, 2017.1.x, 2016.5.x, 2016.4.x
  • Puppet >= 4.0.0
  • , , , , windows

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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'puppetfinland-userfacts', '1.0.2'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add puppetfinland-userfacts
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install puppetfinland-userfacts --version 1.0.2

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puppetfinland/userfacts — version 1.0.2 May 3rd 2018

userfacts

This module contains custom facts about system users. Separate variants are available for *NIX-like operating systems and Windows. The only caveat is that the UID range used by the facts on *NIX systems may be Linux-specific (1000-60000).

Usage

This module currently creates a fact for each local *NIX system user in the user__is_present format. For example, if users "john" and "jane" are present then two facts are created:

  • user_john_is_present: true
  • user_jane_is_present: true

On windows users the format is winuser_<username_is_present. Note that in Windows these outputs are strings. In your puppet module you must use them something like this:

$users = ['john', 'jane']

$users.each | $user | {

   if $facts["winuser_${user}_is_present"] != 'true' {
      user { "${user}":
           ensure     => present,
           name       => $user,
           comment    => $user,
           groups     => [ 'Users' ],
           password   => '************',
           managehome => true,
      }
   }
}

All of these facts automatically resolve to true. They are useful for figuring out on which servers a user is present, especially when there are users not managed by Puppet.