[chef] Re: Modifying Users - Moving Home Directory

[Adam Jacob < >]

You can see the exact command that gets run with -l debug:

chef-client -l debug

My guess is that you are right, we aren't running -dm - and if there isn't a 
bug for it already, there probably should be, or at least a note on the wiki 
for the users resource.

Adam

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On Nov 3, 2011, at 6:45 AM, 
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 wrote:

> 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