Table of Contents

• Description
  • This is a SIMP module
• Setup
• Usage
• Reference
• Limitations
• Development

Description

mate is a Puppet module that installs and manages MATE.

This is a SIMP module

This module is a component of the System Integrity Management Platform a compliance-management framework built on Puppet.

If you find any issues, they may be submitted to our bug tracker.

This module is optimally designed for use within a larger SIMP ecosystem, but it can be used independently:

• When included within the SIMP ecosystem, security compliance settings will be managed from the Puppet server.
• If used independently, all SIMP-managed security subsystems are disabled by default and must be explicitly opted into by administrators. See simp_options for more detail.

Setup

To use the module with default settings, just include the class:

include 'mate'

Usage

You can disable configuration of mate by setting mate::configure to false. The module will then only install MATE.

This module makes heavy use of data. The dconf settings are all data-driven, and the defaults can be seen in the common.yaml.

You can use the knockout prefix of -- in front of a key to remove it from the Hash, like this:

mate::dconf_hash:
  simp_mate:
    --org/mate/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys:
    org/mate/desktop/media-handling:
      --automount-open:

Or you can simply set it to the desired value.

Dconf settings are locked by default so that users can't change them.

This can be disabled on a per setting basis, like in this entry for wallpaper in mate::dconf_hash:

mate::dconf_hash:
  simp_mate:
    org/mate/desktop/background:
      picture-uri:
        value: file:///usr/local/corp/puppies.jpg
        lock: false

Reference

See the API documentation or run puppet strings for full details.

Limitations

SIMP Puppet modules are generally intended for use on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and compatible distributions, such as CentOS.

Please see the metadata.json file for the most up-to-date list of supported operating systems, Puppet versions, and module dependencies.

This module is compatible with GDM v2, v3.

Development

Please read our [Contribution Guide] (https://simp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/contributors_guide/index.html)

Reference

Table of Contents

Classes

Public Classes

• mate: Installs and configures a minimal MATE environment

Private Classes

• mate::config: Set MATE configuration items

Classes

mate

Installs and configures a minimal MATE environment

Parameters

The following parameters are available in the mate class:

• configure
• dconf_hash
• dconf_profile_hierarchy
• packages
• package_ensure

configure

Data type: Boolean

Use the module to configure MATE

@see data/common.yaml

dconf_hash

Data type: Hash[String[1], Dconf::SettingsHash]

Settings specific to dconf and MATE

@see data/common.yaml @see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/dconf/SystemAdministrators

dconf_profile_hierarchy

Data type: Dconf::DBSettings

Dconf db priority

@see https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/dconf.html.en @see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/dconf/SystemAdministrators

packages

Data type: Hash[String[1], Optional[Hash]]

A Hash of packages to be installed

• NOTE: Setting this will override the default package list
• The ensure value can be set in the hash of each package, like the example below:

@example Override packages { 'gedit' => { 'ensure' => '3.14.3' } }

@see data/common.yaml

package_ensure

Data type: Simplib::PackageEnsure

The SIMP global catalyst to set the default ensure settings for packages managed with this module. Will be overwitten by $packages.

Default value: simplib::lookup('simp_options::package_ensure', { 'default_value' => 'installed' })

• Wed Oct 11 2023 Steven Pritchard steve@sicura.us - 1.6.0

• [puppetsync] Updates for Puppet 8
  • These updates may include the following:
    • Update Gemfile
    • Add support for Puppet 8
    • Drop support for Puppet 6
    • Update module dependencies

• Wed Aug 23 2023 Steven Pritchard steve@sicura.us - 1.5.0

• Add AlmaLinux 8 support

• Mon Jul 24 2023 Chris Tessmer chris.tessmer@onyxpoint.com - 1.4.0

• Add RockyLinux 8 support

• Fri Jul 15 2022 Joshua Hoblitt josh@hoblitt.com - 1.3.0

• Add EL8 support

• Tue Jun 15 2021 Chris Tessmer chris.tessmer@onyxpoint.com - 1.2.0

• Removed support for Puppet 5
• Ensured support for Puppet 7 in requirements and stdlib

• Fri Dec 18 2020 Chris Tessmer chris.tessmer@onyxpoint.com - 1.1.2

• Maintenance update for module assets

• Thu Jul 23 2020 Jeanne Greulich jeanne.greulich@onyxpoint.com - 1.1.1

• update the upper bound of simplib for SIMP 6.5 release

• Fri Aug 02 2019 Robert Vincent pillarsdotnet@gmail.com - 1.1.0

• Remove Puppet 4 support
• Add Puppet 6 support
• Add puppetlabs-stdlib 6 support

• Thu Mar 07 2019 Liz Nemsick lnemsick.simp@gmail.com - 1.0.2

• Update the upper bound of stdlib to < 6.0.0
• Update a URL in the README.md

• Mon Nov 05 2018 Liz Nemsick lnemsick-simp@gmail.com - 1.0.1

• Update to Hiera 5

• Wed Jun 20 2018 Trevor Vaughan tvaughan@onyxpoint.com - 1.0.0-0

• Initial release of the MATE module