[chef] Setting up new accounts *without* building home directories

["Kadel-Garcia, Nico" < >]

I’m going through the  ‘users’ cookbook, and various environments, and am trying to figure out how to set ‘useradd’ options to *not* use the ‘-M’ on Linux to automatically create home directories. There are all sorts of reasons not to want this: shared user homedirectories, NFS mounted homedirs that are temporarily offline, and root-squashed NFS shares on client servers are only some of them.

 

I see where the ‘-m’, which enforces home directory allocation, is being set up in lib/chef/provider/user/useradd.rb. But I’m afraid I’m having difficulty unfurling how to prevent it from being used at all or on an environment by environment basis.

 

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Nico Kadel-Garcia
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