[chef] Re: Am I crazy or is manage_home=>true broken in Chef 10.14


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  • From: Daniel DeLeo < >
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  • Subject: [chef] Re: Am I crazy or is manage_home=>true broken in Chef 10.14
  • Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:59:41 -0700

Which platform/provider?

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Daniel DeLeo

On Friday, September 7, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Tim Smith wrote:

I just upgraded my first preproduction system from Chef 10.12 to 10.14 and I'm now getting run fails due to chef-client trying to run usermod with bad syntax.  Thanks to the nice error reporting in 10.14 I can give a human readable format of the error:

================================================================================
Error executing action `create` on resource 'user[bob]'
================================================================================

Chef::Exceptions::Exec
----------------------
usermod -u '5656' bob -m returned 2, expected 0

Compiled Resource:
------------------
# Declared in /var/cache/chef/cookbooks/some_cookbook/recipes/ubuntu.rb:124:in `from_file'

user("bob") do
  recipe_name "ubuntu"
  password "SURE…."
  home "/home/bob"
  username "bob"
  supports {:manage_home=>true}
  cookbook_name "some_cookbook"
  retry_delay 2
  uid "5656"
  retries 0
  action :create
  shell "/bin/bash"
End


So what happens when you execute "usermod -u '5656' bob –m" on a box:

sudo usermod -u '5656' bob  -m
Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN

Options:
  -c, --comment COMMENT         new value of the GECOS field
  -d, --home HOME_DIR           new home directory for the user account
  -e, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE  set account expiration date to EXPIRE_DATE
  -f, --inactive INACTIVE       set password inactive after expiration
                                to INACTIVE
  -g, --gid GROUP               force use GROUP as new primary group
  -G, --groups GROUPS           new list of supplementary GROUPS
  -a, --append                  append the user to the supplemental GROUPS
                                mentioned by the -G option without removing
                                him/her from other groups
  -h, --help                    display this help message and exit
  -l, --login NEW_LOGIN         new value of the login name
  -L, --lock                    lock the user account
  -m, --move-home               move contents of the home directory to the
                                new location (use only with -d)
  -o, --non-unique              allow using duplicate (non-unique) UID
  -p, --password PASSWORD       use encrypted password for the new password
  -s, --shell SHELL             new login shell for the user account
  -u, --uid UID                 new UID for the user account
  -U, --unlock                  unlock the user account
  -Z, --selinux-user            new SELinux user mapping for the user account


Tim Smith

Operations Engineer, SaaS Operations

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