[chef] Re: Re: Re: Updating uid/gid of existing user

[Jeff Blaine < >]

On 12/17/2014 7:28 AM, Nils-Helge Garli Hegvik wrote:
> Yeah, that part I have figured out. The issue is what happens to files
> owned to the previous uid/gid, that is not in the user home folder.
> 
> Nils-H

Hi Nils,

No, the user resource does not address this. This is when a human is the
tool for the job. You will need to manually, one-time, address this on
your systems via (most likely) various invocations if the 'find'
command. You have uncovered a lack of previous planning (centralized
directory services and/or UID/GID policies) and now get to rectify it
once and for all, but there's no magic tool to help you unwind legacy.

An analogy is, "I have 3 MySQL databases. Will the PostgreSQL cookbook
code find them on the network and migrate them to PostgreSQL?" :)

Jeff

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Tiago Cruz 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>> You can "force" in your recipe like this:
>>
>> group "deployer" do
>>   gid "501"
>> end
>>
>> user "deployer" do
>>   uid "501"
>>   group "deployer"
>>   comment "deployer"
>> end
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Nils-Helge Garli Hegvik 
>> <
 >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I need to take control over a user created by a package that is
>>> installed in our syste, so it does not change between
>>> uninstall/install. Therefore, I want to use the "user" resource to
>>> define a uid and gid for this user, so it is already created/modified
>>> before the package is installed. The problem is, the user already have
>>> different uid/gid between different nodes, so I can't really just find
>>> the current uid and then set it to that uid. For some nodes, this will
>>> cause the uid of the user to change. So, the question is, how do I
>>> handle ownership of existing files and directories where this will
>>> cause the uid to change? For files in the home folder, this is handled
>>> automatically by the 'usermod' command, but not so for files
>>> elsewhere. I assume someone has come across this issue before, so how
>>> did you handle it? Can the current "user" resource handle this, or
>>> does a recipe exist that can handle this?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Nils-Helge Garli Hegvik
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -- Tiago Cruz
>>
> 
> 

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