need for specific uid/gid for Puppet user

[Phil-Friderici]

We need to have the possibility to specify a specific uid/gid for the Puppet OS user.

[ghoneycutt]

What's the use case for this? Generally the puppet package should ensure this.

[Phil-Friderici]

In our environment we need to have a fixed uid/gid number for the Puppet user account.
After seting up Puppet with this module uid/gid is both 500, which is not correct. We need to be able to specify a reserved uid/gid for the user.

[ghoneycutt]

Since you have to install puppet from the package, before running this module, I do not see how modifying this module can help. I think the package needs to be modified instead.

[Phil-Friderici]

In the old template I see that the UID/GID are specified:

  user { 'puppet':
    uid        => 11111,
    gid        => 99999,
    managehome => false,
    require    => Group['puppet'],
  }
  group { 'puppet':
    gid => 99999,
  }
  class { 'old_puppet_module':
    puppettype     => client,
  }

Need to check how this looks like after installing the package before running Puppet for the first time.

[Phil-Friderici]

Puppet is installed while kickstarting (eis_cm-2.7.14-1_rhel6.x86_64) with uid=498(puppet) gid=500(puppet) groups=500(puppet). A testrun with find / -gid 500 or -uid 498 didn't show any files. So it should not break anything to reset the UID/GID to the globaly reserved and used one.

I agree that the ultimate way would be to change the package. On the other side, that would mean that we can't use public available package anymore.

What about an optional paramter to activate reseting UID/GID ?

[Phil-Friderici]

never mind