[chef] Re: Issue with chef-client 12 on OS X workstations

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Ryan Moon wrote:

> I use chef to manage OS X workstations, slowly but surely moving out of my old
> method of building pkg installers for everything than using munki.
>
> Prior to updating to chef 12 (for instance running 11.12.8) on my bootstrapped
> workstations this portion of a recipe I use to set a base config would work:
>
>         directory "/Users/#{node['current_user']}/.ssh" do
>             owner node['current_user']
>             mode "0700"
>             action :create
>         end
>
> With the result being that an .ssh folder was created for the logged in admin
> user, for instance foo-admin, not the root user.
>
> However after updating to chef-client 12, this same recipe fails, as it tries
> to create a .ssh folder for root, who doesn't have a home at /Users.

Note that the semantics for node['current_user'] changed in Chef 12/Ohai 8 
to correct confusing behavior when running under sudo.

https://github.com/opscode/ohai/pull/386

- Julian

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