[chef] Re: Re: Can't seem to run command in bash resource as another user?

[o haya < >]

Thom, Jeff, Nico (et al),

After working all night and not resolving this, I woke up this morning and 
finally (JUST) figured it out (there was a log that I didn't know about that 
told me the real problem). 

It seems that the "running as user" part was working ok all along :(.  The 
problem turned out to be somewhere (completely), basically a configuration 
file that had an incorrect parameters in it.  I had changed some directory 
names as I was cleaning up my Chef recipe, but didn't change the parameters 
in that config file.

Thanks for the responses!

Jim


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On Wed, 7/22/15, Thom May 
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 Subject: [chef] Re: Can't seem to run command in bash resource as another 
user?
 To: "Chef" 
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 Cc: 

 
 Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 10:26 AM
 
 Hi
 Jim,I think we need more information about "still
 seems to be writing files with root ownership". You
 mean the installer is? or something else is? Can you paste
 the output of your chef
 run?Thanks,-Thom
 On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at
 8:07 PM, o haya 
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 wrote:
 Hi,
 
 
 
 I am trying to implement a recipe for installing an
 application, but I have to run the installer .bin file (in
 the /tmp/app) as a specific user "appuser",
 
 
 
 I'm doing this in a bash resource, and have tried:
 
 
 
 bash 'xxx" do
 
   cwd "/tmp/app"
 
   code <<EOH
 
     su - appuser
 
     ./app.bin.......
 
   EOH
 
 end
 
 
 
 But that doesn't seem to be work (I get an explicit
 error from the app in the bash resource saying that I have
 to not be root when I run the app).
 
 
 
 I've tried some things I've found from googling,
 such as:
 
 
 
 bash "installxxxx" do
 
   user "appuser"
 
   cwd "/tmp/app"
 
   environment ({ 'HOME' =>
 ::Dir.home('appuser'), 'USER' =>
 'appuser' })
 
   code <<-EOH
 
      ./app.bin...
 
   EOH
 
 end
 
 
 
 and that if failing because it seems to still be writing
 some files with "root" ownership, rather than with
 "appuser" ownership.
 
 
 
 Can someone tell me why this (the "su - appuser"
 isn't working and also how can I get it to work?
 
 
 
 Thanks,
 
 Jim