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

["Van Fossan,Randy" < >]

Since I have disabled the password plugin in Ohai, my nagios recipe now fails 
as the owner and group on a remote_directory resource is from ldap.

Back to the drawing board!  :(

  Randy

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

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:52 PM, 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 see you're making progress incorporating this into the chef-client 
cookbook, that's good.
However both you and Ian were also asking about bootstrap, and I didn't see a 
reply about that.

knife bootstrap uses a distro-specific template file that you can specify 
with -d DISTRO.
Those files live inside the chef gem, in the lib/chef/knife/bootstrap 
directory. You can also look at them on GH [1].

To start customizing them, just copy them to your chef-repo:
${CHEF_REPO}/.chef/bootstrap/

You will find something like this:

(
cat <<'EOP'
<%= config_content %>
EOP
) > /etc/chef/client.rb


Changing that to:

(
cat <<'EOP'
<%= config_content %>

Ohai::Config[:disabled_plugins] = [ "passwd" ] EOP
) > /etc/chef/client.rb

should be what you need.


Then of course if you use the chef-client, you will still need to make sure 
it does the right thing. But this will take care of the first run.

Hope this helps.
Andrea


1: https://github.com/opscode/chef/tree/master/chef/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap