I'm not familiar with the syntax you're using but the below worked for me using 'puppet apply grp-usr.pp' on my laptop where grp-usr.pp contained: group { 'poc': ensure => present, gid => '1002' } user { 'one': ensure => present, uid => '1005', gid => '1002', require => Group['poc'] } user { 'two': ensure => present, uid => '1006', gid => '1002', require => Group['poc'] } The run produced no errors and grep poc /etc/group produced: poc:x:1002: with egrep 'one|two' /etc/passwd producing (with a couple of extraneous entries): nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin whoopsie:x:109:116::/nonexistent:/bin/false two:x:1006:1002::/home/two: one:x:1005:1002::/home/one: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Heinlein" <heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "centos" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 4:20:08 PM Subject: Re: PUPPET - group IDS On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Ian Diddams wrote: > hope thus comes under the remit of this mailking list... > > > > We use puppet, and Im trying to come up with "code" that will create two user accounts with a shared groiup ID > eg > user1 with UID 1000user 2 with UID 1001 > but I would like them BOTH to share the GID of 2000 > I've tried the following > accounts::groups: jointgroup: gid: '2000' > accounts::users: > user1: uid: '1000' gid: '2000' home: '/home/user1' shell: '/bin/bash' password: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' > user2: uid: '1001' gid: '200' home: '/home/user2' shell: '/bin/bash' password: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' > But when I trfy and use this puppet agent -tv complains when trying to create user2 that GID 2000 is slready used . > > how may I manage this? I haven't used the "allowdupe" option, so I don't know if it works for GIDs, but supposedly this works: user { 'user1': uid => 1000, gid => 2000, ..., allowdupe => true } user { 'user2': uid => 1001, gid => 2000, ..., allowdupe => true } In YAML-ese, I guess you'd just add accounts::users: user1: allowdupe: 'true' -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos