[chef] Modifying Users - Moving Home Directory

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HI All-

I am very new to Chef, and was tasked to create a recipe to move a user's home
directory.  I wrote (what I thought) was a nice little cookbook, with thoughts
of future re-use and expansion...but it did not work as expected.  I have now
scaled back to the bare essentials:


default.rb:

user "trip" do
  action :modify
  home "/NewHome/trip"
  supports :manage_home=>true
end


No errors are reported during the run, and the /etc/passwd file correctly 
shows
the new home location.  However, the contents of the original home are not
moved into the new location as I would have expected given the ":manage_home 
=>
true" attribute.  The user is not logged in, no other recipes are run when I
kick it off.  If I cp -pR and move the directory manually, it works as
expected.  It almost seems if the usermod -d is being used instead of  -dm.

Any advice would be appreciated-

Eric