Added possibility to manage group members of a group

[hhenkel]

We're using onyxpoint/gpasswd to enable the management of group members
(for example ad users as members of a local group). The
onyxpoint/gpasswd module does that by overwriting parts of the group
provider. Changes to user.pp was necessary so that members of the
primary group of a user could be managed as well.

[deric]

That's interesting, I was just trying to resolve an issue with existing groups on servers. This might fix that.

[deric]

This is quite confusing. Do we really want to add members into user's primary group? And how do we synchronize the data?

  class {'accounts':
    groups => {
      'users' => {
        'members' => ['john'],
      },
    },
    users => { 'john' => {
      'groups'  => ['users'],
      'group_members' = ['snow']
    }}
  }

In this case user John should be a member of group users. That's clear, even specified twice (once in user's definition and other in group definition). Then we have undefined user snow, which should be created? or it should throw an error? Do I have to specify user itself in his primary group?

Could you write some tests for this functionality? What if we want to remove users from some group?

We have multiple attributes concerning groups, primary_group, gid, groups and now group_members. It's starting to be quite confusing :(

[hhenkel]

Sorry, I'm currently busy with other things, will come back to this at a later time.

[deric]

This seems to be tracked as a bug in Puppet.

[deric]

I'm closing this in favor of 62fd7ab.