[chef-dev] Re: clients able to delete themselves / auto-scaling

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Michael Ivey 
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 wrote:
> We're running some tests with EC2 auto scaling. It's working great when the
> nodes come up, and we have them deleting their node in the chef server when
> they get scaled down, but we have lots of leftover clients, since a client
> can't delete itself.

There's some past discussion on this topic here:
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1867

> How would folks feel about a patch to allow a client to delete itself even
> if it's not an admin?

I believe that permission would be okay.

Bryan