[chef] RE: Re: How to pass hash password from ruby-block to user resource

[Pratik Gadiya < >]

Hi Noah,

Thanks for the heads up. Will take care of it.

Regards,
Pratik

-----Original Message-----
From: Noah Kantrowitz 
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Sent: 01 October 2014 01:59
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Subject: [chef] Re: How to pass hash password from ruby-block to user resource

Please don't cross-post to SO and the ML at the same time. Means twice as 
many people will spend the time to answer you when either one would be just 
fine.

--Noah

On Sep 30, 2014, at 12:08 PM, 
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 wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to implement a cookbook which would create users by
> reading passwords from attributes file ( non hash password ex:
> 
 )
>
> And for this, my cookbook is as follows :
>
> 1. Contains of attributes file ( attributes/attr.rb )
>
> default['my']['instance']['users']=[{uid:
> 1004,user_name:'m1',homedir:'/home/m1',password:'
 '},{uid:
> 1003,user_name:'m2',homedir:'/home/m2',password:'
 '},{uid:
> 1002, 
> user_name:'m3',homedir:'/home/m3',password:'
 '}]
>
> 2. Recipe :
>
> password_hash=''
> node['my']['instance']['users'].each do |each_user|
>    ruby_block "Generating hash password" do
>       block do
>           require 'digest/sha2'
>           password=each_user['password']
>           salt=rand(36**8).to_s(36)
>           shadow_hash=password.crypt("$6$" + salt)
>           password_hash=shadow_hash
>       end
>    end
>
>    user each_user['user_name'] do
>       password "#{password_hash}"
>       home each_user['homedir']
>       system true
>       action :create
>       manage_home true
>       uid each_user['uid']
>    end
> end
>
>
> After execution of the cookbook, respective users are created
> appropriately but passwords are set blank.
>
> Looks like the variable which I am trying to access in the password
> attribute of user resource is not correct.
>
> Please let me how can I resolve this.
>
> Note : In my case, I dont want to use databags
>
> Thanks,
> Pratik


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