[chef] Re: help with users cookbook

[Mike < >]

You might want to try this syntax:

    knife search users "*:*"
    knife search users "id:david"
    knife search users -q "id:david" # -q not really necessary for this query

-M

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:16 PM, David Birdsong
<
 >
 wrote:
> I'm still pretty new to chef, but this operation should be straight-forward.
>
> I'm on centos6.3 and trying to use this cookbook:
> http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/users
>
> Let's start with the search not working. My data bag is clearly there:
>
> 
 
>  chef-repo{master}]$ knife data bag show users
> chris
> david
>
> 
 
>  chef-repo{master}]$ knife data bag show users  david
> comment:  DAVID
> email:    
> 
 
> groups:
>   admin
>   dev
> id:       david
> shell:    /bin/bash
> ssh_keys: ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1kc33/OVhcn8N1<snip>WOk5tocKAw=
> /Users/david/.ssh/id_dsa
> uid:      500
>
>
> but search returns 0 results for anything in the users data bag:
>
> 
 
>  chef-repo{master}]$ knife  search users
> 0 items found
>
> 
 
>  chef-repo{master}]$ knife  search users  -q '*david*'
> 0 items found
>
> Any ideas?