[Mageia-sysadm] Puppet Report for jonund.mageia.org

[Olivier Blin]

Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:

> This one failed because the /home/buildbot/.iurt.cauldron.conf file
> cannot be created, because /home/buildbot do not exist. 

We should add the user in some ldap, and create the homedir
automatically.
How can we do that?

> So 2 questions : 
> - do we really need to have a hidden config file ( afaik, this was done
> mainly to not clutter the home directory of regular user )

(it was present only in ~mandrake)

> and do we
> really need to place iurt configuration file in /home/foo when foo is
> not a real user but a system one ?. 
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to do like any other software and place it
> in /etc/iurt/iurt.cauldron.conf ?

/etc/iurt/cauldron.conf looks fine.
It should work with attached patch.

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