Users tend to customize their shell environments, terminal colors, aliases, and so forth. This is usually achieved by a number of dotfiles in their home directory, for example, .bash_profile or .vimrc.
You can use Puppet to synchronize and update each user's dotfiles across a number of machines by extending the virtual user setup we developed throughout this chapter. We'll start a new module, admin_user and use the file types, recurse attribute to copy files into each user's home directory.
Create the
admin_userdefined type (define admin_user) in themodules/admin_user/manifests/init.ppfile as follows:define admin_user ($key, $keytype, $dotfiles = false) { $username = $name user { $username: ensure => present, } file { "/home/${username}/.ssh": ensure => directory, mode => '0700', owner => $username, group => $username, require => File["/home/${username...