RE: Editfiles convergence bug

[Craig Nelson]

I ended up with the following ugly pile to ensure that a user existed and had the right UID accross all of our systems. Please excuse the wrapping, these are long lines. The order is important to satisfy the user* and group* scripts, cannot delete the group before the user or add the user before the group.

This works on RedHat 6.2, 7.2, and 7.3.

editfiles:
  # add bigbro user to passwd and group files
  managedhosts.bigbrother::
    { /etc/group
        SetScript "/home/bigbro/bb/runbb.sh stop;sleep 1;
/usr/sbin/userdel -r bigbro;/usr/sbin/groupdel bigbro;
/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 400 bigbro;
/usr/sbin/useradd -c BigBrother -u 400 -g 400 bigbro;ls"
        RunScriptIfNoLineMatching  "^bigbro:x:400:.*"
        DefineClasses bigbrotherupdate
        LocateLineMatching "^bigbro:x:400:.*"
    }
    { /etc/passwd
        SetScript "/usr/sbin/groupdel bigbro;/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 400 bigbro;ls"
        SetScript "/home/bigbro/bb/runbb.sh stop;sleep 1;
/usr/sbin/userdel -r bigbro;/usr/sbin/groupdel bigbro;
/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 400 bigbro;
/usr/sbin/useradd -c BigBrother -u 400 -g 400 bigbro;ls"
        RunScriptIfNoLineMatching  "^bigbro:x:400:400:.*"
        DefineClasses bigbrotherupdate
        LocateLineMatching  "^bigbro:x:400:400:.*"
    }

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