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

[AJ Christensen < >]

I meant to link to this too re: Mixlib ShellOut:
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/mixin/shell_out.rb#L29-L39

'git grep shell_out' in the Chef codebase, haha! You'll see all of the
places this is used.

--aj

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:22 PM, AJ Christensen 
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 wrote:
> 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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>  wrote:
>> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>> AJ,
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> In the code block you give to `lazy`, you can use backticks or %x to run a 
>> command that returns the UID.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel DeLeo
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