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Adding the web-data user to another group with puppet

#puppet #virtualresource

this blog post is mainly a note to myself for future reference.

profile::nginx

 ... # the user is not created here. lets say the user is prepared here. @user { 'www-data': # groups => ['somegroup'], gid => '33', membership => minimum, } ...

profile::other_profile_which_needs_to_add_the_group

 # here the user is created aka realized but with the extra group `mynewgroup` added. User <| title == 'www-data' |> { groups +> "mynewgroup" }

@@ means the resource is exported. also see https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.3/lang_exported.html

@@user { 'www-data': ... }

@ means the resource is virtual. also see https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.3/lang_virtual.html

@user { 'www-data': ... }

further reading:

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