[chef] Re: Remove a user from a group?

[Peter Loron < >]

Unfortunately, this isn't available on Windows, which is the platform I'm 
trying to do this with. 

I guess I'll either shell out to do the native commands. I'm probably not up 
to properly submitting patches to the group provider.

-Pete

On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:19 PM, AJ Christensen 
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 wrote:

> The actions: manage does not create the group, modify does. You can
> use combinations of create/remove manage/modify to allow a number of
> group configurations.
> 
> You can use the ruby 'etc' std-lib module to query information about a
> group at compile time (or converge via ruby_block. Shame we don't have
> that delayed evaluation yet..)..
> 
> irb(main):001:0> require 'etc'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> wheel = Etc.getgrnam "wheel"
> => #<struct Struct::Group name="wheel", passwd="x", gid=10, mem=["root", 
> "aj"]>
> irb(main):003:0> wheel.mem
> => ["root", "aj"]
> 
> Cheers, HTH!
> 
> AJ
> 
> On 16 March 2013 12:10, Peter Loron 
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>  wrote:
>> Hi, AJ. From my reading of the group docs (URL below), I'm only seeing the
>> ability to specify the complete set of users in a group, not the specific
>> user to remove. If true, in order to remove a user from a group, I would
>> need to know the list of all users in the group first, which I do not have.
>> I could probably gin up a way to get that list, but it seems very broken to
>> be able to add a specific user, but not remove one…
>> 
>> Since I'm on the topic, is there any clarification between what the 
>> "manage"
>> and "modify" actions do?
>> 
>> http://docs.opscode.com/resource_group.html
>> 
>> -Pete
>> 
>> On Mar 15, 2013, at 3:41 PM, AJ Christensen 
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>>  wrote:
>> 
>> You can :manage the entire group and remove a user from the 'members'
>> attribute.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> AJ
>> 
>> On 16 March 2013 10:15, Peter Loron 
>> <
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>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hello. I'm working with the "group" provider, and I can see how to add a
>> user to a local group. However, I don't see a clean way to remove a user
>> from a group. My Google-fu has failed me. Can anybody shed some light on
>> this? Thanks.
>> 
>> -Pete
>> 
>>