cdist-type__user(7)

Overview

This cdist type allows you to create or modify users on the target.

Required parameters

None.

Optional parameters

state: absent or present, defaults to present

comment: see usermod(8)

home: see above

gid: see above

password: see above

shell: see above

uid: see above

Boolean parameters

system: see useradd(8), apply only on user create

create-home: see useradd(8), apply only on user create

remove-home: see userdel(8), apply only on user delete

Messages

mod: User is modified

add: New user added

userdel -r: If user was deleted with homedir

userdel: If user was deleted (keeping homedir)

Examples

# Create user account for foobar with operating system default settings
__user foobar
# Same but with a different shell
__user foobar --shell /bin/zsh
# Same but for a system account
__user foobar --system
# Set explicit uid and home
__user foobar --uid 1001 --shell /bin/zsh --home /home/foobar
# Drop user if exists
__user foobar --state absent

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Copyright (C) 2011 Steven Armstrong. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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