mark's solution is the best for adding stuff to everyone's profile, but if you ever need to ensure some lines are in a file, Puppet Labs has a great module called stdlib which includes file_line which will do what you need. Previously I've used echo and grep in the exec type to do this, but file_line is so much easier and cleaner.

Here's the help for it:

Ensures that a given line is contained within a file. The implementation
matches the full line, including whitespace at the beginning and end. If
the line is not contained in the given file, Puppet will add the line to
ensure the desired state. Multiple resources may be declared to manage
multiple lines in the same file.

Example:

file_line { 'sudo_rule':
   path =&gt; '/etc/sudoers',
   line =&gt; '%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL',
}
file_line { 'sudo_rule_nopw':
   path =&gt; '/etc/sudoers',
   line =&gt; '%sudonopw ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL',
}

In this example, Puppet will ensure both of the specified lines are
contained in the file /etc/sudoers.


Adding lines to /etc/profile with puppet?
I have a confusion regarding the hook and a normal function, So can any one tell me what is the significant difference between a Drupal hook and a normal PHP function in Drupal.  
