When maintaining windows server with puppet, it could be interesting to set your Administrator password to never expires. Since you want to manage your passwords through puppet, and not manually by some hyper active sysadmin, this comes in handy. Note the fact that it is wise to change passwords now and then 😉 On Windows […]
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Creating cron jobs via Puppet is fairly easy and well explained in available docs. However, I had some trouble adding cron jobs that needed to run at 2 different times a day. Normal cron behavior is that you just enter a , in between your 2 timestamps and everything is done. Eg something like this:
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Want to add a user to MySQL that you can use for eg backups, monitoring,… or any other tasks this user needs to perform. (in this example a root user) Create a small definition define create_mysqlbckuser ( $mysqlrootpasswd = ”, ) { exec { “create_mysql_bck°user”: unless => “/usr/bin/mysqladmin -ubckuser -p’b4ckupP4ss’ status”, command => “/usr/bin/mysql -uroot
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