[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris (sparc and i86) error while password change

[karthik kumar < >]

Thanks Cameron, 

Just curious do you know what is the fix for this. Do you have the pull request reference for this change ?

I checked this got from bug  the platform.rb and solaris.rb are the same 

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Cameron Cope < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

The easiest thing would be to install the 11.14.0 release candidate. Otherwise you'll have to hunt for an old version that works (I think it's been broken since at least 11.6.x, but I don't know if there were any working 11.x builds at all).

-Cam

On Jul 15, 2014 11:15 PM, "karthik kumar" < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Can you advice what workaround I can do for the time being.?

On 16-Jul-2014 12:34 am, "Cameron Cope" < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Yeah, this re-broke sometime since Chef 10. I submitted a couple of fixes to ohai and chef to make this work again, which will be in the 11.14.0 release.

-Cam

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:21 PM, karthik kumar < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi, 

    My recipe to update root password, 

user 'root' do

    password '$1$xRttNfmg$kiGAjD0nRQkFXyE5432ci'

end

 

   throws this error,   BUT /etc/shadow file is updated properly

chef-solo -c client.rb -j runlist.json

Starting Chef Client, version 11.12.8

Compiling Cookbooks...

Converging 1 resources

Recipe: base::default

  * user[root] action create (up to date)

================================================================================

Error executing action `create` on resource 'user[root]'

================================================================================

......

Ran ["usermod", "root"] returned 2

[2014-07-15T11:01:20-07:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)

checking the code, 

chef-11.12.8/lib/chef/provider/user/solaris.rb

def manage_user

    manage_password  ->  write_shadow_file                 # WORKS GOOD

    super                                                                    # parent's shell_out fails

end

chef-11.12.8/lib/chef/provider/user/useradd.rb

def manage_user

.....

    shell_out!(*command)                                             # command CONTAINS    ["usermod", "root"]  fails with return code non-zero

end

       

I think this is same as 

https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1707

and it says Resolution:Fixed, 

Can somebody advice if I am doing anything wrong ?    Is there a workaround for this ? should I write lwrp/provider of my own ?  Please advice.