[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] CHEF-1621 - "recursive" attribute on "directory" resource does not apply users and groups to entire path

[Chad Woolley < >]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Thomas Bishop 
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 wrote:
> 1.  I'm probably influenced by how I would do this on the command
> line. (mkdir -p /data/realtime/fetched/radar; chmod -R 777 /data;
> chown -R ldm:ldm /data;)

On the command line, if I wanted an entire tree owned by a non-root
user, I would do this:

mkdir -p /home/ldm/realtime/fetched/radar

IF the top level dir happened to not be root-writeable, I would do this first:

sudo mkdir /data
sudo chown ldm:ldm /data
mkdir -p /data/realtime/fetched/radar

I think you are coming from a root-user perspective, and assuming that
everything for which you don't explicitly specify should be
root-owned.

I'm assuming that if I'm issuing a command to create something (e.g. a
directory tree) for a non-root user, *everything* that command creates
should be owned by that non-root user.  If I wanted part of my
directory tree owned by root, I would do that with a separate command
without the owner specified.

-- Chad