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

[Roman Kushnir < >]

From what I see in the code, to disable home dir you can just set {home: "/dev/null"}

Best Regards,
Roman

2014-06-05 1:50 GMT+03:00 Kadel-Garcia, Nico < " target="_blank"> >:

On further review,  can see that the current but the 'users' cookbook is enforcing such settings. I don't see how to prevent it yet.

It's also pretty insistent on creating a $HOME/.ssh directory, even if no SSH settings arep provided. I can submit a patch for that more easily.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Noah Kantrowitz [mailto: "> ]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 6:08 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: Setting up new accounts *without* building home directories

This is the default for the user resource, but you can make it explicit if you prefer:

user 'foo' do
  supports manage_home: false
end

--Noah

On Jun 4, 2014, at 3:04 PM, "Kadel-Garcia, Nico" < > wrote:

> 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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> Cell Phone: +1.339.368.2428
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