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

[AJ Christensen < >]

Yo,

Bad luck re: automation

I mean create your users (with chef, from data-bags) in a high-UID range.

You can adjust the useradd configuration file to add users to a
different UID range, for your terrible, terrible, greybeard bad-mans,
when called by hand without a UID.

–AJ

On 19 October 2011 13:46, John Alberts 
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 wrote:
> 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.
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> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:40 PM, AJ Christensen 
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>> Don't manually add users, manage everything with Chef.
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>> Try a high UID range, otherwise, like 4000
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>> On Oct 19, 2011 1:12 PM, "John Alberts" 
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>>  wrote:
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>>> 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
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