Apply all changes during single Puppet run

[deric]

When creating a new group its members are not updated in /etc/group, the result looks like this

$ id deployer
uid=1010(deployer) gid=1002(deployer) groups=1002(deployer)
$ getent group deployer
deployer:x:1002:

although the second command should output deployer:x:1002:deployer. This change is made after second Puppet run.

Minimal code to reproduce the issue:

class {'::accounts':
  users => {
    'deployer' => {
      'uid' => '1010',
    }
  }
}

[deric]

It looks more like an Linux issue than Puppet problem. Executing following sequence

groupadd deployer
gpasswd -a deployer deployer

won't modify /etc/group file (in same shell session), unless the group is already defined. In order to bypass the problem I'm using a nasty sed expression to update /etc/group (which would have been done upon next puppet run)

sed -i.bak -e 's/^\\(deployer\\)\\(.*\\)/\\1\\2deployer/g' /etc/group

which ensures that following line exists:

deployer:x:1002:deployer