user adding and "files"

[John Borwick]

When I add a user and use that username somewhere later in the script, 
cfengine doesn't know about the user.  If I run the script a second 
time, of course, the user is known.

For the following script:

__BEGIN__
control:
        actionsequence = ( shellcommands files )

shellcommands:
        "/usr/sbin/useradd test"

files:
        /tmp/test
        owner=test
        r=inf
        act=fixall
__END__


The user "test" is not known to the "files" section.  See the message 
"setting to -1":

*********************************************************************
 Main Tree Sched: shellcommands pass 1 @ Thu Oct 14 14:29:58 2004
*********************************************************************

cfengine:: Executing script /usr/sbin/useradd 
test...(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1)
(Setting umask to 77)
cfengine:: Finished script /usr/sbin/useradd test

*********************************************************************
 Main Tree Sched: files pass 1 @ Thu Oct 14 14:29:58 2004
*********************************************************************

Checking file(s) in /tmp/test
cfengine::   touching /tmp/test
cfengine:: Owner of /tmp/test was 0, setting to -1
cfengine::   touching /tmp/test/t
cfengine:: Owner of /tmp/test/t was 0, setting to -1
Saving the setuid log in /var/cfengine/cfagent.f4n35.wfunet.wfu.edu.log
---------------------------------------------------------------------

__END__


Why is this?  Are there any workarounds?

Yours,
John
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           John Borwick
       System Administrator
      Wake Forest University | web  http://www.wfu.edu/~borwicjh
      Winston-Salem, NC, USA | GPG key ID             0x797326D5

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