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  1. Puppet
  2. PUP-5938

windows, user to groupassign to local administrators failed

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Normal
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • PUP 4.3.2
    • PUP 4.5.4, PUP 4.6.0
    • Types and Providers

    • Windows 7 x64, german Version in an active directory environment
      puppet-agent-1.3.5-x64

    • 2
    • Windows 2016-07-27
    • Bug Fix
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      * On non-English versions of Windows where the Administrators group (or other well known accounts that are part of BUILTIN or NT AUTHORITY) are localized, Puppet may have been unable to add members to such groups (regardless of whether the group was referred to by it's English name, localized name, or it's canonical SID like S-1-5-32-544).
      * Fixed a minor performance issue when querying for Windows groups present on the host system.
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      * On non-English versions of Windows where the Administrators group (or other well known accounts that are part of BUILTIN or NT AUTHORITY) are localized, Puppet may have been unable to add members to such groups (regardless of whether the group was referred to by it's English name, localized name, or it's canonical SID like S-1-5-32-544). * Fixed a minor performance issue when querying for Windows groups present on the host system.

    Description

      Trying to add an user to local Administrator Group fails with an error message

      C:\Temp>puppet apply  --verbose -e "user { 'bla': ensure  => 'present', comment
      		 
      => 'bla', groups  => ['S-1-5-32-544',], }"

      or also following version

      C:\Temp>puppet apply  --verbose -e "user { 'bla': ensure  => 'present', comment
      		 
      => 'bla', groups  => ['VORDEFINIERT\Administratoren',], }"
      		 
      Info: Loading facts
      		 
      Notice: Compiled catalog for xxxx in environment production in 0.14 seconds
      		 
      Info: Applying configuration version '1456004269'
      		 
      Error: ADSI connection error: failed to parse display name of moniker `WinNT://VORDEFINIERT/Administratoren,group'
      		 
          HRESULT error code:0x80070035
      		 
            Der Netzwerkpfad wurde nicht gefunden.
      		 
      Wrapped exception:
      		 
      failed to parse display name of moniker `WinNT://VORDEFINIERT/Administratoren,group'
      		 
          HRESULT error code:0x80070035
      		 
            Der Netzwerkpfad wurde nicht gefunden.
      		 
      Error: /Stage[main]/Main/User[bla]/ensure: change from absent to present failed:
      		 
       ADSI connection error: failed to parse display name of moniker `WinNT://VORDEFINIERT/Administratoren,group'
      		 
          HRESULT error code:0x80070035
      		 
            Der Netzwerkpfad wurde nicht gefunden.

      I've also tried following names Administratoren and hostname\Administratoren
      Yes I've to use the german group names, BUILTIN\Administrators and the other english names are not found.

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          relates to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PUP-6499 `puppet resource user` does not work on Windows French edition

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PUP-6534 Windows parallel specs fail

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

          Web Link Zendesk Ticket 19934

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              erick Erick Banks
              phixom Alexander Wendland
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