[chef] Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: ohai, number ldap accounts

[Chris < >]

Does [:ohai][:disabled_plugins] show up on your node after convergence?

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Van Fossan,Randy 
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 wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> I made the following changes to my chef-client cookbook and I cannot get it 
> to work.
>
> I added the following to the chef-client/attributes/default.rb
> default[:ohai][:disabled_plugins] = [ "passwd" ]
>
> And I added the following to chef-client/templates/default/client.rb.erb
> <% if node.attribute?("ohai") && 
> node["ohai"].attribute?("disabled_plugins") -%>
>
> Ohai::Config[:disabled_plugins] = [<%= 
> node["ohai"]["disabled_plugins"].join(",") %>]
> <% end -%>
>
> It doesn't populate the /etc/chef/client.rb file.   I am not sure what I am 
> doing wrong.
>
> Randy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris 
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 2:26 PM
> To: Van Fossan,Randy
> Subject: Re: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: ohai, number ldap accounts
>
> Actually, I dropped into the environments. But yeah, thats pretty much what 
> it looks like.
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Van Fossan,Randy 
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>  wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> I assume that your attributes file looks something like
>>
>> default[:ohai][:disabled_plugins] = ["passwd","someotherplugin"]
>>
>> Thanks
>>  Randy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris 
>> [mailto:
 
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:46 PM
>> To: 
>> 
 
>> Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: ohai, number ldap accounts
>>
>> While this probably isn't the 'proper' way, I added:
>>
>> <% if node.attribute?("ohai") &&
>> node["ohai"].attribute?("disabled_plugins") -%>
>>
>> Ohai::Config[:disabled_plugins] = [<%=
>> node["ohai"]["disabled_plugins"].join(",") %>] <% end -%>
>>
>>
>> to the client.rb template in the chef-client cookbook. Yes, it does go 
>> away if you upgrade your cookbook, but for me thats been pretty safe since 
>> it takes an act of nature to upgrade anything.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Van Fossan,Randy 
>> <
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>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> That is good news.   I need to incorporate that in the chef-client 
>>> cookbook so that when the node is bootstrapped, it doesn't pull the data 
>>> in after the first run.   Anyone, Know how I can incorporate the plugin 
>>> disable when doing a bootstrap?   I do not want to delete the plugin as 
>>> there may be reason to use it in the future or on a particular node.
>>>
>>> I am not sure where to incorporate this...
>>> Ohai::Config[:disabled_plugins] = [ "passwd" ]
>>>
>>> Thanks all
>>>  Randy
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Daniel DeLeo 
>>> [mailto:
 
>>>  On Behalf Of Daniel
>>> DeLeo
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:58 AM
>>> To: 
>>> 
 
>>> Cc: 
>>> 
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>>>  
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>>>  
>>> 
 
>>> Subject: [chef] Re: RE: ohai, number ldap accounts
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 8:25 AM, 
>>> 
 
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi Randy,
>>> >
>>> > We are experiencing this very same issue and were recently looking for 
>>> > a solution. We use centrify to pull in AD accounts for authorization. 
>>> > The nodes are pulling in tons of data for all of these user groups and 
>>> > accounts.
>>> >
>>> > If we're not doing anything with specific user accounts in 
>>> > recipes/templates, should we be safe to just disable the Ohai plugin 
>>> > that pulls in the user accounts from AD?
>>> Chef doesn't use ohai data to lookup user/group data for 
>>> file/template/directory or execute/script or user/group resources. It 
>>> uses Ruby's `Etc` module, which in turn uses the `getpwent` family of 
>>> functions.
>>>
>>> So it's totally safe to remove the plugin if you don't need the data for 
>>> other reasons.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dan DeLeo
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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