Types and providers

The following builtin types have an Augeas-based provider implemented:

• host
• mailalias

The following other types have a provider implemented:

• mounttab from puppetlabs-mount_providers

The module adds the following new types:

• apache_directive for updating generic Apache HTTP Server configs
• apache_setenv for updating SetEnv entries in Apache HTTP Server configs
• kernel_parameter for adding kernel parameters to GRUB Legacy or GRUB 2 configs
• nrpe_command for setting command entries in Nagios NRPE’s nrpe.cfg
• pam for files inside /etc/pam.d/
• pg_hba for PostgreSQL’s pg_hba.conf entries
• puppet_auth for authentication rules in Puppet’s auth.conf
• shellvar for shell variables in /etc/sysconfig or /etc/default etc.
• ssh_config for setting configuration entries in OpenSSH’s ssh_config
• sshd_config for setting configuration entries in OpenSSH’s sshd_config
• sshd_config_subsystem for setting subsystem entries in OpenSSH’s sshd_config
• sshkey for managing entries in OpenSSH’s known_hosts
• sysctl for entries inside Linux’s sysctl.conf
• syslog for entries inside syslog.conf

See examples of each type in use.

Planned

The following builtin types have Augeas-based providers planned:

• ssh_authorized_key
• port, once #5660 is done
• yumrepo, once #8758 is done

Other ideas for new types are:

• /etc/system types

Issues

Please file any issues or suggestions on GitHub.