[chef] Re: Re: user id conflicts with user cookbook

[John Alberts < >]

Yeah, I know, but unfortunately, not manually adding users is not an option.  We are only partially automated and that's not going to change for a while.   I've already tried using a high uid and it doesn't matter.  Whatever I change it to, the next time a user is created using useradd, it just picks up where chef left off.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:40 PM, AJ Christensen < "> > wrote:

Don't manually add users, manage everything with Chef.

Try a high UID range, otherwise, like 4000

On Oct 19, 2011 1:12 PM, "John Alberts" < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

i've been using the users cookbook for a while, and I've noticed an issue that I wonder if anyone else has a solution to.  When I add a new user to the databag and run chef-client on a server that has been around for a while and had some users manually added to it, I get a uid and gid conflict.  Obviously the real problem here is that we are still manually adding users occasionally, but unfortunately that's unavoidable for now.

I thought about removing the uid and gid attributes from the recipe so it just creates the user with the next available uid and gid, but I thought I would ask on the mailing list before doing that to see what other's have done to avoid this.

Thanks

John

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John Alberts