[chef] Re: Re: Removing root's password results in 'ruby-shadow not installed' error.

["Jason J. W. Williams" < >]

Hi Bryan,


> You need the ruby-shadow library for modifying a user password. It
> isn't installed by the gems as a dependency because it is optional.

Actually I do this already in the recipe at the beginning, just not
included in that snippet:

gem_package "ruby-shadow" do
    action :install
 end

> This should be a hash.

Since I want to remove the password how do you do a hash of nothing?
;) Setting it '*' was a guess that it was just setting the password
field in /etc/shadow directly.

-J