[chef] Re: CHEF-2205: manage_home on Redhat

[Mike < >]

I, for one using RedHat/CentOS/Amazon Linux, expect a user's account
creation to always have a home directory created, unless the following
is true:
- A 'system' user account is created (useradd -r)
- Explicitly override with 'manage_home false' (effectively 'useradd -M')

Considering scenarios in which we deploy users, we either want to have
them auto-assigned a homedir, or in the case of system users, no
homedir.

It seems like we've been deploying users without explicitly using the
`supports {:manage_home => true}` attribute to the resource, so this
would indeed be a huge honking breaking change in Chef 10.

Don't break my Chef.

If this is included in Chef 11 - as it probably should be, as it's a
logical bug, considering the default value of :manage_home is false,
then this should be lit up in lights, painted across the sky, shouted
across the rooftops.

-Mike

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Bryan McLellan 
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> While the user resource defaults to not managing home directories by 
> default, apparently Redhat overrides that so home directories are always 
> created. CHEF-2205 proposes fixing that. Redhat people, is this behavior 
> unexpected to you?
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> We could throw a warning in that situation for a few releases, but I don't 
> know that most people upgrade every release.
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> http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2205
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