[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Chef and LDAP Users

[AJ Christensen < >]

If you 'include Chef::Mixin::ShellOut' in a custom library, you can
use #shell_out! there.

using the lazy attribute evaluator and the Mixin ShellOut classes'
shell_out!() functionality, something like this outta' work:
https://gist.github.com/fujin/f0b7dd38b558001c5913

--aj

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>> AJ,
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>> Thanks. One more question... shelling out in chef and grabbing the 
>> output... has never been an easy task... best approach?
>>
>> I was able to do this just now with the execute resource, I guess because 
>> that forks a new process too. It would be nice though to call getent in 
>> some fashion, and the parse the output, so that I could be sure that the 
>> group id I am assigning is the correct one for the user. At the moment 
>> it's coming out of a data bag.
>>
>> Also kinda gross.
>>
>> Doug
> Well, it’ll be a little gross, but I think you’ll have to use a lazy 
> attribute 
> http://docs.getchef.com/resource_common.html#lazy-attribute-evaluation
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> In the code block you give to `lazy`, you can use backticks or %x to run a 
> command that returns the UID.
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> Daniel DeLeo
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