I think that would be overkill myself.

On Nov 12, 2013, at 2:57 AM, Joshua Hoblitt <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In manifests/params.pp:
> 
> >    # paths are the same for el5.x & el6.x
> >    $web_package_name     = 'ganglia-web'
> >    $web_php_config       = '/etc/ganglia/conf.php'
> >    $web_php_erb          = 'ganglia/conf.php.el6.erb'
> >  
> > +  group { 'ganglia':
> > +    ensure => 'present',
> > +    system => true,
> > +  }
> > +  user { 'ganglia':
> > +    ensure  => 'present',
> > +    comment => 'Ganglia Monitoring System',
> > +    gid     => 'ganglia',
> > +    shell   => '/sbin/nologin',
> > +    system  => true,
> > +    require => Group['ganglia'],
> > +  }
> Sounds perfectly reasonable. Does it make sense to allow gmetad/gmond to be configurable to run as different users to or is that over kill?
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