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  1. Puppet
  2. PUP-3719

Group resource non-authoritative by default (Breaking change)

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    • Platform Client 2014-11-26, Platform Client 2015-01-07, Platform Client 2015-01-21

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      The auth_membership group parameter controls whether puppet ensures the group contains exactly the members specified, and no more, or contains at least the members specified. By default, the group parameter defaults to the former, which is opposite to the auth_membership user parameter. This makes the group parameter difficult to use in practice, because you need to know what the complete set of group members should be. For example, on Windows the local Administrators group may contain a combination of local and domain user/group accounts, and that may vary across different types of machines.

      We should change the auth_membership group parameter to default to false so that it is consistent with the user parameter.

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. ENTERPRISE-182 Ability to add a member to a group, instead of specifying the complete list

          • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
          • Closed
          relates to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PUP-2628 Ability to add a member to a group, instead of specifying the complete list

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PUP-3653 Unable to create/force empty Windows groups

          • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PUP-6542 Group resource emits misleading change notification with auth_membership => false

          • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
          • Closed

          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. PUP-3883 Support for user resource with a DOMAIN\User title

          • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
          • Closed
          links to

          Web Link GH PR #3434

          Web Link Puppet-Dev discussion - Should Group auth_membership continue to default to true?

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              rob Rob Reynolds
              Eric Thompson Eric Thompson
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