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

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Jason J. W. Williams
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 wrote:
> gem_package "ruby-shadow" do
>    action :install
>  end

Does this error happen on a second run?

Are you installing from debs or gems?

> 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.

Use "action :lock" which I failed to mention at first.

Bryan