[chef] Re: Template resource: default value for mode attribute?

[Matt Ray < >]

I verified this and I've updated the Template entry on the Resources
page to reflect the default.
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-Template

Thanks,
Matt Ray
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On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Faiz Kazi 
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 wrote:
>
> It appears that if one does not specify a mode,
> files generated/overwritten by template resources
> end up having permissions like -rw------- (0600).
>
> This seems like a sane default. But maybe the
> documentation should make this explicit.
> Right now, the template resource wiki page
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-Template
> reads:
>
> Attribute:      mode
> Description:    "The octal mode of the file - 0755"
> Default Value:  (nothing here)
>
> Take for example the simple case of managing /etc/hosts.
> This file usually has permissions -rw-r--r--.
>
> template '/etc/hosts'
>  source 'hosts.erb'
> end
>
> .. will overwrite /etc/hosts as expected, but if one
> forgets to pass in the mode attribute, '/etc/hosts'
> ends up as readable only by root (i.e., -rw-------).
>
> This is not really a major problem (I simply make sure
> to pass in a mode explicitly).
> but as a suggestion:
>
> (1) For existing files that get 'templated',
> chef-client could just leave the permissions untouched.
>
> OR
>
> (2) Fix the docs to make it very clear that unless
> one specifies a mode explicitly, the file
> created/overwritten by the template will end up
> with the default mode (and that the default
> mode is 0600, not 0755)
>
>
> For the record, I'm still running 0.9.16.
>
> Thanks,
> Faiz
>
>
>
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