[chef] Re: Re: help with users cookbook

[David Birdsong < >]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Mike 
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 wrote:
> 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
>

thanks for the help on the syntax, that returned results and also
called my attention to the mis-spelled group names in the data bag
that are probably to blame for missing user accounts.

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:16 PM, David Birdsong
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>  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?